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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Jewish History

  • Bernard J Bamberger, The Story of Judaism; New York: Schocken, 1970
  • Judith R Baskin, ed. Jewish Women in Historical Perspectives; Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991
    -- High quality essays, and a wide chronological range
  • Dan Cohn—Sherbok, The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Antisemitism; Harper Collins 1992
  • Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy; London: Collins, 1986
  • Martin Gilbert, Jewish History Atlas; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986
  • Michael Grant, The History of Ancient Israel; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984
  • Solomon Grayzel, A History of the Jews; JPS/Mentor (1947) 1968
  • Jonathan I Israel, European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism 1550-1750; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989
  • Josephus, The Jewish War tr G A Williamson; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959
    -- The first-century struggle with Rome, told by a contemporary Jewish historian
  • V D Lipman, The Jews of Medieval Norwich; Jewish Historical Society of England, 1967
  • Hyam Maccoby, Judaism in the First Century; London: Sheldon Press, 1989
    -- An extraordinarily informative little book about a crucial period
  • Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History; New York and Oxford: OUP, 1980. 18-20c
    -- Very well done
  • Open University, The Jewish Enigma
    -- Video and audio cassettes, booklets...
  • John D Rayner, Progressive Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel; London: LJS, 1983
    -- This is an early instalment; Rabbi Rayner has continued to write and preach on this theme
  • Jonathan A Romain, The Jews of England: A Portrait of Anglo-Jewry through Original Sources and Illustrations; Sternberg Centre; Michael Goulston Educational Foundation, 1988
    -- An attractive and readable book
  • David Sorkin, The Transformation of German Jewry 1780-1840; New York: OUP, 1987
  • Robert S Wistrich, Antisemitism; Thames Mandarin, 1992