The Jewish Question: Biography of a World Problem

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 - History - 784 pages
This monumental work of Alex Bein, noted scholar and chief librarian of the Israeli National Library, is the most authoritative survey of Jewish culture and Jewish problems in the Diaspora. First published in two massive volumes in German, it is here made available in a single volume in English.
 

Contents

Introduction
17
Foundations and Conditions Jews and Environment in Ancient Times
31
The Development of the Jewish Question in the ChristianEuropean Middle Ages
83
The Development of the Jewish Question in the Modern Age up to the French Revolution
136
Emancipation and the Jewish Question 17891880
207
Modern AntiSemitism and Its Place in the History of the Jewish Question
229
The Reaction of the Jews to the Renewed JewBaiting and AntiSemitism
260
Zionism and the Jewish Question
283
The State of Israel the Jewish Diaspora and the Jewish Question
409
Retrospect and Prospect
446
Notes and Excursuses
472
Preface
476
Introduction
477
Foundations and Conditions Jews and Environment in Ancient Times
483
The Development of the Jewish Question in the ChristianEuropean Middle Ages
499
The Development of the Jewish Question in the Modern Age up to the French Revolution
519

The Attempt at a Radical Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Accordance with the AntiSemitic Racial Doctrine 19331945
312

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