Jews in the Modern World

Jewish history is amongst the most turbulent of any peoples' in modern times.

In the 19th century most of the world's Jews lived in the Russian Empire; today, most live in the US and Israel.

Endemic anti-semitism in Continental Europe and the disaster of the Holocaust are part of the story, but so too is the tendency to philo-Semitism in the Anglo-Saxon world.The authors provide an up-to-date charting and analysis of modern Jewish history, looking at both the Jews' relations with the "outside" world and at the sometimes profound transformations in Jewish identity, culture and belief in the period since the Enlightenment.