| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| BOOK ONE Torah and History |
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| 1. | Torah: The Five Books of Moses | |
| 2. | Nevi'im: The Prophets | |
| 3. | Ketuvim: The Collected Writings | |
| 4. | The Second Temple: The Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Dynasty and the Jewish State | |
| 5. | The Jews on the Land: From the Fall of the Second Temple until the Crusades | |
| 6. | Judaism and Christianity: Dissent, Disruption, Dialogue | |
| 7. | The Glory of Sefardic Jewry | |
| 8. | Ashkenasic Jewry in the Middle Ages: Crisis and Learning | |
| 9. | Ashkenasic Jewry Rises to Eminence | |
| 10. | Forces and Counterforces | |
| 11. | Hasidism: Tikkun in Galut | |
| 12. | Reason, Enlightenment, and the Jews | |
| 13. | Conflicts and Conferences: The Emergence of Denominations | |
| 14. | The Agony of Russian Jewry | |
| 15. | The Emergence of Zionism | |
| 16. | Enter America | |
| 17. | The Religious Dynamics of American Jewry | |
| 18. | Insecure Citizenship | |
| 19. | War and Holocaust | |
| 20. | Israel Reborn | |
| BOOK TWO Torah, Mitzvot, and Jewish Thought |
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| Introduction to Book 2 | ||
| 21. | Synagogue | |
| 22. | Torah | |
| 23. | Oral Torah | |
| 24. | Prayer and the Prayer Book | |
| 25. | The Jewish Calendar | |
| 26. | Shabbat, the Sabbath | |
| 27. | Pilgrimage Festivals and Simhat Torah | |
| 28. | Yamim Noraim, The Days of Awe | |
| 29. | Minor Feasts and Fasts | |
| 30. | The Road of Life | |
| 31. | Women and Religious Law | |
| 32. | Through the Eyes of the Jewish Mystics | |
| 33. | Ancient and Medieval Thought | |
| 34. | Living in Two Cultures: German Jewish Thought | |
| 35. | Postmodern Thought Since the Holocaust | |
| Bibliography | ||
| Index | ||