The way Jews lived : five hundred years of printed words and images / Constance Harris ; foreword by Shalom Sabar.

Author/creator Harris, Constance
Format Book
Publication InfoJefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, 2009.
Descriptionvii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Jewish art.
Judaism and art.
Jews--History.
Judaism--History.

Contents Jewish art : in the beginning -- The fifteenth century : printmaking and printing begin -- The sixteenth century : let there be books -- The seventeenth century: the old world and the new -- The eighteenth century : enlightenment, emancipation -- England in the nineteenth century : industry and the politics of equity -- France in the nineteenth century : Napoleon and the rise of Zionism -- Central Europe and Russia in the nineteenth century : modern -- Anti-semitism -- America in the nineteenth century : immigration and liberation -- England in the twentieth century: working class to upper class -- France in the twentieth century: grandeur and loss -- Germany and austria in the twentieth century : disaster and renewal -- Russia and eastern europe in the twentieth century : radical -- Theories, mass migrations -- America in the twentieth century : from the immigrant experience -- To modernity -- Israel in the twentieth century : Erets Yisrael, hope deferred.
Abstract "The author presents through pictures and text a social history of Jewish life and art in the last 500 years. Each chapter relates the brief history of a period, devoting particular attention to events concerning Jewish life"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 453-461) and index.
LCCN 2008036564
ISBN9780786434404 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)
ISBN0786434406 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks N 7415 .H36 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold