The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

Norman Ravvin is an assistant professor of English at the University of
New Brunswick. He is the author of Café des Westens, Sex, Skyscrapers,
and Standard Yiddish, and A House of Words.

This wide-ranging reference book aims to be exhaustive in its coverage
of Jewish history. Contributors offer a broad and detailed map of their
chosen area of history without assuming the reader needs every
specialized word or location defined. The book would thus be most useful
to readers with a fair to substantial knowledge of world history and
Jewish culture.

Detailed chapters cover such subjects as biblical history; the
formation of the Diaspora; the relationship between Jews and Islam,
Christianity, and the medieval worldview; the era of emancipation; the
Holocaust; and the creation of the State of Israel. The writers discuss
their often complex subjects in straightforward, nonspecialized
language. The book includes an outstanding selection of maps and
illustrations, which are in color.