Triumph of Survival: The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1995Mesorah Publications, 1990 - 508 pages Through his hundreds of lectures, Rabbi Wein has brought the Torah perspective on history to thousands of listeners. In this original work, he paints a magnificent, panoramic picture of our people in the centuries that shaped us and our world. This major work has the touches of luxury you expect in books of this magnitude, including a ribbon place-marker and embossed foil-stamped jacket. Large 8-1/2 x 11 coffee-table format. Beautifully written and illustrated, it is accurate and incisive, yet personal and passionate. It is informative, provocative, and inspiring. Seldom is must reading so enjoyable. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
Tach VTat | 11 |
Shabtai Tzvi | 21 |
Regrets and Recriminations | 31 |
Enlightenment Reform and Modernity | 37 |
Chassidim Misnagdim and the Response to Reform | 85 |
The Pale of Settlement | 161 |
Unrest and AntiSemitism | 172 |
After the Conflict | 290 |
Palestine For Whom? | 303 |
Assimilation Forever | 314 |
American Jewry in the 1920s | 329 |
Jews Under Moslem Rule | 336 |
The Holocaust and the State | 343 |
The New Jewish World | 426 |
The SixDay | 442 |
Tradition Embattled | 181 |
The Mussar Movement Ethical Rebirth | 187 |
New Yearnings | 199 |
Leaving the Old Home | 207 |
Return to Zion | 218 |
The Changing Face of Jewry | 454 |
The Yom Kippur | 464 |
Towards Peace? | 477 |
Epilogue | 497 |
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