Lloyd P. Gartner. History of the Jews in Modern Times. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xi, 468 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Author(s):  
Robert M. Seltzer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Professional Historian ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Developments

Lloyd Gartner has written an excellent survey for the serious student and a fine tour d'horizon for the professional historian, delineating long-range historical developments concisely and lucidly, providing apt, fresh illustrations throughout the narrative, and efficiently unpacking terminology and nomenclature that would be obscure to the general reader. His book supersedes previous overviews of modern Jewish history.

Polish History through the Eyes of Three Jewish Popular Historians

1998 ◽  
pp. 312-318
Author(s):  
Jerzy Tomaszewski
Keyword(s):  
Large Volume ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
Modern Jewish History ◽  
History Of

This chapter provides a comparison of Howard Sachar's book The Course of Modern Jewish History, which was first published in 1958, with two other general works on Jewish history. One is a large volume entitled A History of the Jewish People, edited by Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson, which was first published in Hebrew in 1969. The other is Robert M. Seltzer's Jewish People, Jewish Thought, which is more limited in size and scope and intended for a broad audience. The chapter considers only topics relating to Polish history, not those concerned with exclusively internal Jewish problems or the history of other nations. Nor will there be any general assessment of Sachar's book. Although Ben-Sasson's and Seltzer's works cover Jewish history from ancient to modern times, the story of the Jews in Poland is a relatively recent chapter in this history: it dates only from the creation of the Polish state in the tenth century. Both authors mention the early period of Polish history only briefly, beginning their real narratives of Polish Jewry with the detailed analysis of privileges granted to Jews by Polish kings in the thirteenth century.

Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish language reform, a catastrophic success. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 190. HB $65.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-647
Author(s):  
Ismail Aydingün ◽  
Ayşegül Aydingün
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Language Reform ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Reading Matter ◽  
History Of ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
Building Project

Geoffrey Lewis's book traces the history of Turkish language reform with fascinating style. The reader is provided with rich and well-selected examples, and the translation from Turkish to English is excellent. The author's experience of Turkey and his competence in Turkish are clear throughout. He states that the book has two purposes: to acquaint the general reader with the history of Turkish language reform, and to provide students at all levels of Turkish with some useful and stimulating reading matter. Lewis is successful on both counts. Furthermore, the book is significant in that it sheds light on the fact that, although language reform is not a well-known aspect of the Kemalist revolution, it played a vital role in the creation of the Turkish national identity. In other words, the aim of Turkish language reform was not simply to “purify” the language by eliminating foreign words and foreign grammatical features; rather, it was part of a nation-building project.

Beérkezett könyvek

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-770
Author(s):  
Csaba Pléh
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
New Science ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Oxford University Press

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