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Foreword Shalom Sabar Sabar, Shalom 1
Introduction 5
1 Jewish Art: In the Beginning 7
2 The Fifteenth Century: Printmaking and Printing Begin 15
3 The Sixteenth Century: Let There Be Books 40
4 The Seventeenth Century: The Old World and the New 79
5 The Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Emancipation 113
6 England in the Nineteenth Century: The Industrial Revolution Challenges the Politics of Equity 164
7 France in the Nineteenth Century: The Rule of Napoleon and the Rise of Zionism 200
8 Central Europe and Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Modern Anti-Semitism 234
9 America in the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and Liberation 272
10 England in the Twentieth Century: Working Class to Upper Class 303
11 France in the Twentieth Century: Grandeur and Loss 317
12 Germany and Austria in the Twentieth Century: Disaster and Renewal 334
13 Russia and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century: Radical Theories, Mass Migrations 370
14 America in the Twentieth Century: From the Immigrant Experience to Modernity 389
15 Israel in the Twentieth Century: The Dream Projected, Fulfillment Deferred 421
Glossary 449
Bibliography 453
Index 463
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Adam Hannon
reviewed The Way Jews Lived: Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images on September 07, 2012
The Way Jews Lived: Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images
I cannot possibly recommend this, or indeed any Edersheim book, highly enough. Though his style is perhaps more academic than might be desirable in a "casual" Theological treatise, with references and footnotes and asides galore, they are worth wading through for the treasure within.
This is the first of Edersheim's works that I've worked through as an adult, and it is definitely a different read as an adult than it was as a teen. Edersheim exudes knowledge in every paragraph, knowledge that has, unfortunately, been dismissed as irrelevant by many in modern Christendom. We've become so enamored with reading the Bible as if it were God's personal letter to us as individuals that we forget that it was, indeed, written at a specific time in history, with historical customs and beliefs shaping how the Word was communicated to believers at the time.
This book was especially helpful to me in reading the Gospels (particularly Jesus's disputations with the Pharisees), as well as Paul's Epistles to Jewish believers. Judaism, as it exists now, is a product of 2000 years of rich intellectual tradition and growth in the post-Temple era, and it is easy for Christians to simply conflate the modern Judaism with that of the Pharisees, forgetting the impact of the Sadducean and Essene movements in the first century A.D.
I would say that this should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the historical context of the New Testament. It opens and elaborates on so many elements of the text that would otherwise be a mystery to those of us reading it in the 21st century.
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