<p>Lloyd Gartner provides a vivid description of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World-Europe, the Middle East, and beyond-and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book begins in 1650, when the Jewish population had fallen to roughly 1.25 million, less than one-sixth of its peak at the start of the Christian era. Gartner leads us through the traditions, religious laws, communities, and their interactions with their neighbors, through the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and into Emancipation, the dark shadows of anti-Semitism, and the Second World War, bringing us up to the present with Zionism and the founding of Israel. Eminently readable and impeccably researched, the book is a superb introduction to one of the central threads of modern history.</p>

History of the Jews in Modern Times

History

Gartner, Lloyd P.

World

Oxford University Press

This is an analysis and description of that section of the great Jewish migration from eastern Europe which settled in Britain - around 120,000 Jews. The routes to England and the immigrants' travel experiences are discussed and the dockside reception is presented, which leads to a consideration of the policies of the native Jewish community.

The Jewish immigrant in England, 1870-1914,

Europe

Simon Publications

Cleveland's first synagogue was dedicated just fifty years after Moses Cleaveland laid out the village names for him. The first Jews to arrive in Cleveland came from German lands, to be followed later in the nineteenth century by waves of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe. Preoccupied by a devotion to hard work, a hope for prosperity, and a desire for freedom, they maintained their identity while participating, almost from the start, in the social, political and cultural life of a growing Cleveland. Their story, narrated by an eminent Jewish historian, spans the years from the appearance of the first known Jew in Cleveland in 1836 to the end of the Second World War. The author analyzes their development in terms of their merger with the urban and national scenes, their long and active participation in Cleveland's civic life and their notable role within American Jewry and world-wide Jewish affairs.

History of the Jews of Cleveland (Regional history series of the American Jewish History Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America)

Americas

Western Reserve Historical Soc

History of the Jews of Cleveland (Regional History Series of the American Jewish History Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Vol 4)

Western Reserve Historical

History of the Jews of Cleveland by Lloyd P. Gartner. Illustrated Paperback Published 1987 by Cleveland Western Reserve Historical Society in cooperation with the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. 387 pages.

History of the Jews of Cleveland (Western Reserve Historical Society)

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