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• W274632991 abstract "A Short History of Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood, by Raymond P. ScheindlinIn some respects, writing a short history of Jewish people is a more difficult task than writing a lengthy one. As Raymond Scheindlin acknowledges in his introduction, it is no simple matter to compress into 274 pages the entire theater of Jewish history, which embraces Asia from Iran to Mediterranean, Europe and North Africa, and, across Atlantic, North America, a history so intertwined with that of peoples more numerous and powerful than Jews (p. viii). Such a vast subject matter is too daunting for a reader who is just beginning his exploration of and so Scheindlin set out to capture themes and highlights of Jewish history for such beginning readers.For most part, he has succeeded. Scheindlin's pen glides easily across vast panorama of Jewish experience, from origins of ancient Israelites, their enslavement in Egypt and eventual liberation, rise of kingdoms of David and Solomon, Babylonian exile and return, Maccabean and Roman wars, and on through two millennia of dispersion. Scheindlin writes well and sustains reader's interest throughout. The text is interspersed with an array of helpful maps, parallel timelines of Jewish and general history, and interesting sidebars on specific topics (among them Dead Sea Scrolls, Yiddish, Golden Age poetry, Safed, and Rothschilds).Space limitations compel Scheindlin to generalize, and his generalizations occasionally falter. The causes of Sabbatean phenomenon, for example, are not fully addressed; Scheindlin alludes to Chmielnicki massacres as cause of mass support for Shabbtai Zvi's messianic pretensions, but makes no reference to Gershom Scholem's research on internal Jewish religious developments connected to rise of Sabbateanism. Scheindlin also notes that important rabbis took [Zvi] seriously, but he fails to acknowledge that there was also significant rabbinical opposition to Sabbateanism. He also overstates movement's longevity, asserting that many of Zvi's followers joined him in apostasy, securing movement an afterlife and noting that it still exists in modern Turkey, while neglecting to mention that it is a tiny sect with no relationship to Jewry or Judaism (pp. 133-134).A welcome feature of A Short History of Jewish People is that it devotes more attention to experience of Jews in Muslim world than is usually found in general Jewish history texts. Interestingly, Scheindlin's assessment of Jewish experience under medieval Islam is somewhat more positive than one might have expected. He contends that inferior legal and social status of dhimmi, as Jews and other non-Muslims are categorized in Muslim lands, actually brought relief in case of Jews, because it meant that Islamic religion and state recognized their status and guaranteed their right to live and to practice their religion -- not grudgingly, as under humiliating logic of Saint Augustine... (p. 74). Whether Jews themselves regarded difference between official recognition and grudging recognition as being of much practical significance is less clear.As evidence of relatively satisfactory condition of Jews in medieval Arab world, Scheindlin points to their impressive literary output, particularly their Arabic-language poetry. Himself a specialist in medieval poetry, Scheindlin adds an interesting and colorful dimension to his Short History of Jewish People by making frequent reference to role of poetry in Jewish arts and letters at various stages in history. It is important, however, not to overstate significance of individual literary achievements in assessing overall Jewish communal comfort. One need only recall, for example, poetry, novels, and scholarship produced by Jews amidst misery of life in Czarist Russia. …" @default.
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