Download or read book The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities written by Sondra Leiman and published by URJ Books and Music. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses narrative, maps, pictures, personal tales, and primary texts to explore Jewish history, from Jerusalem in the first century to modern-day Israel.
Download or read book Atlas of Great Jewish Communities written by Sondra Leiman and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history book you've been waiting for Sondra Leiman's The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities is an adventure that begins in Jerusalem in the first century and ends, hundreds of years later, in modern-day Israel. Colorful maps. Intriguing sidebars. Personal tales. Primary texts. This is much more than a textbook. It's an interactive experience in Jewish history.Designed for the fifth and sixth grade, The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities focuses on individuals as much as it does on events. Students meet such famous figures as Rabbi Judah ha Nasi, who collected the writings that make up the Mishnah, Bruriah, a Talmudic sage, Rambam, one of the greatest Jewish philosophers, Maria Nunes, who saved a group of her fellow conversos, and Eliezer Ben Yehuda, who wrote the first modern dictionary of the Hebrew language. In becoming acquainted with such people, students learn of the Jewish past and come to see it as very much their own. -- User-friendly format -- Personal stories -- Colorful maps and pictures -- Primary sources -- Ideal introduction to Jewish history
Download or read book Atlas of Modern Jewish History written by Evyatar Friesel and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique reference source, the Atlas of Modern Jewish History covers Jewish history, geographic distribution, politics, and demography from the 17th century to the 1980s. The contributors, all distinguished specialists in Jewish history, focus particularly on Jewish populations in urban areas, making available for the first time maps and other data on Jewish communities in Muslim countries, India, China, Lithuania, and 18th-century Poland. In addition, the Atlas contains a wealth of other maps, tables, graphics, text, and special thematic maps that illustrate the development of anti-semitism, Jewish langauge and religious movements, Zionism, and the holocaust. Comprehensive, authoritative, and completely up-to-date, the Atlas of Modern Jewish History is a one-of-a-kind reference book and will prove invaluable to a wide range of specialists, students, and general readers.
Download or read book A Teacher s Guide to The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities written by Katherine Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a Boderline textbook, However, it is so informative that it might also be a reference book, it covers the diaspora Experience-From the fall of the second Temple to modern day Israel.
Download or read book The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization written by Josephine Bacon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers over 4000 years of Jewish history (from biblical times through 2001), using maps, illustrations and photographs to enliven the text. The copious, minutely detailed maps were researched by expert British historian Martin Gilbert. The biblical period, the diaspora, contemporary Israel, and modern Jewry are amply covered. Artistic and cultural developments are treated as well as political and social events.
Download or read book A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People written by Elie Barnavi and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Jews spans more than two millenia and encompasses most parts of the globe--an extraordinary saga which is set forth pictorially in this comprehensive, and richly illustrated and designed volume. With hundreds of brilliantly detailed maps, photographs, and drawings, and chronologies and commentaries by leading experts, A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People is both an authoritative reference work and a sumptuous gift volume.
Download or read book Jewish History Atlas written by Martin Gilbert and published by London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas traces the world wide Jewish migration from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Israel. It seeks to follow the divers-and sometimes obscure-path of far ranging people, and to map their strange experiences in good times and bad. ( Take from preface.)
Download or read book The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History written by Martin Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the world-wide migrations of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Israel, this newly revised and updated edition spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps and presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people.
Download or read book Atlas of Jewish History written by Dan Cohn-Sherbok and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating history, Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the development of Jewish history from ancient times to the present day. Containing over 100 maps and 30 photographs, this is a comprehensive atlas of Jewish history designed for students and the general reader. It is ideally suited for those courses in Jewish or Biblical Studies, serving as a handy reference guide as well as a textbook.
Download or read book Jewish History Atlas written by Martin Gilbert and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of the Jewish World written by Nicholas Robert Michael De Lange and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of Medieval Jewish History written by Haim Beinart and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Communities in Exotic Places written by Ken Blady and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and aspects of the dominant cultures in which they were situated.
Download or read book Historical Atlas of Hasidism written by Marcin Wodziński and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cartographic reference book on one of today’s most important religious movements Historical Atlas of Hasidism is the very first cartographic reference book on one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. Featuring sixty-one large-format maps and a wealth of illustrations, charts, and tables, this one-of-a-kind atlas charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion; its dynasties, courts, and prayer houses; its spread to the New World; the crisis of the two world wars and the Holocaust; and Hasidism's remarkable postwar rebirth. Historical Atlas of Hasidism demonstrates how geography has influenced not only the social organization of Hasidism but also its spiritual life, types of religious leadership, and cultural articulation. It focuses not only on Hasidic leaders but also on their thousands of followers living far from Hasidic centers. It examines Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its beginnings in the eighteenth century until today, and draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records to present the most complete picture yet of this thriving and diverse religious movement. Historical Atlas of Hasidism is visually stunning and easy to use, a magnificent resource for anyone seeking to understand Hasidism's spatial and spiritual dimensions, or indeed anybody interested in geographies of religious movements past and present. Provides the first cartographic interpretation of Hasidism Features sixty-one maps and numerous illustrations Covers Hasidism in its historical entirety, from its eighteenth-century origins to today Charts Hasidism's emergence and expansion, courts and prayer houses, modern resurgence, and much more Offers the first in-depth analysis of Hasidism's egalitarian--not elitist—dimensions Draws on extensive GIS-processed databases of historical and contemporary records
Download or read book Atlas of the Holocaust written by Martin Gilbert and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Gilbert has researched and prepared 316 maps to trace each phase of the Holocaust, beginning with the anti-Semitic violence of prewar Germany to the expulsion of Jews from towns and villages, the establishment of ghettos, and the setting up of the death camps, and including acts of resistance and revolts, areas of Jewish partisan activity, killings of children and non-Jews, the flight of survivors. Explanatory text accompanies the maps, chronicling the details and explaining the sources--many of which are records the Nazis themselves kept. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book A Historical Atlas of Israel written by Amy Romano and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps, text, and timeline chronicle the history of Israel, from biblical times to the present day.
Download or read book American Jewish Year Book 2014 written by Arnold Dashefsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, in its 114th year, provides insight into major trends in the North American Jewish communities, examining the recently completed Pew Report (A Portrait of Jewish American), gender in American Jewish life, national and Jewish communal affairs and the US and world Jewish population. It also acts as an important resource with lists of Jewish Institutions, Jewish periodicals and academic resources as well as Jewish honorees, obituaries and major recent events. It should prove useful to social scientists and historians of the American Jewish community, Jewish communal workers and the press, among others.