1789-1945

Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World War One and the Holocaust of World War Two, and much more.

Provides background on the Jewish people, their relationship to the non-Jewish world, and antisemitism in ancient, medieval, and modern times; discusses the actual period of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945; and examines the aftereffects of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel.

Examines the causes of the Holocaust and the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, and describes several aspects of the Holocaust including the siege of Poland, the ghettoes, the Final Solution, resistance movements, rescue operations, and the aftermath, presenting photos, statistics, maps, and excerpts from victims' and other participants' writings.

Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-Semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World War One and the Holocaust of World War Two, and much more.