THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS BY Gotthard Deutsch, Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, HEBREW UNION COLLEGE [Illustration] NEW YORK BLOCH PUBLISHING COMPANY 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY BLOCH PUBLISHING COMPANY TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. FROM THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY, 586 B.C., TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE, 70 C.E. 7 II. FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, 70, TO THE COMPLETION OF THE MISHNAH, 200 20 III. ERA OF THE TALMUD, 200-600 28 Religious History of the Era 30 IV. FROM THE RISE OF ISLAM, 622, TO THE ERA OF THE CRUSADES, 1096 35 Literary Activity of the Period 39 V. THE JEWS OF EUROPE, 1040-1215 46 Spiritual Life of the Period 48 VI. PERIOD OF OPPRESSION, 1215-1492 53 Jewish Literature, Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century 63 VII. THE PERIOD OF IMPROVEMENT, 1492-1791 70 Intellectual and Literary Life 83 VIII. THE PERIOD OF EMANCIPATION FROM 1791 90 Culture in the Nineteenth Century 100 INDEX 113 PREFACE