Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
The Author
A Word about your Crossroads of Jewish History Student Reader
Collections of Primary Sources
Timelines
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Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Introduction to the Biblical Period
Methodology
Historical Background
Enduring Understandings
The Twelve Tribes as they surrounded the Tabernacle in the Wilderness
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
Text 4
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Introduction to the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods
Historical Background
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Text 5
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
The Hasmonean Family
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Text 3b
Text 4a
Text 4b
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background of the Great Revolt
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Text 2
Text 5
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Babylonia (Bavel)
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Text 8
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Introduction to the Medieval Period
Historical Background
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Text 5
Text 6
Text 7
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Text 7
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background of Sephardic Jews
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Text 2
Text 3
Historical Background of the Ashkenazi Jews
The Controversy
Text 5
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Text 7
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Text of the u’Netaneh Tokef Prayer
Historical Background
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Text 3
Text 4
Text 5
Text 6
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Historical Background
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Text 2
Text 4
Text 5
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Introduction to the Modern Period
Historical Background
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Text 6
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
Text 1
Text 2
Historical Background - Texts 3-5
Text 3
Text 4
Text 5
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Text 7
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Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
European Enlightenment
The Haskalah
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Text 6
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Text 7
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
Text 2
Text 3
Text 4
Historical Background - Text 5
Text 5
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
Creation of Anti-Semitism
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Text 5
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Historical Background - Texts 6-7
Text 6
Text 7
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
Ideology
Adolf Hitler
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Text 5
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Text 5
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Text 6
Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Suggested Readings
Methodology
Historical Background
Customs and Traditions
Terminology
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Text 5
Enduring Understandings
A List of Key Names and Key Terms
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Enduring Understandings
Suggested Readings
Historical Background
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Suggested Readings
Map Section
World Map
The Twelve Tribes
The United Kingdom
The Two Kingdoms
The Hasmonean Kingdom
Black Death Map
Medieval Migration Map
Pale of Settlement
Politics, Zionism and Emigration
The Holocaust
Death Tolls
State of Israel Borders
Arab Jewish Emigration
Timeline of Jewish History and Heritage