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Required Texts for the History of the Jews

Students who enroll in Institute classes are required to purchase copies of the Required Texts. All editions are inexpensive paperback editions. It is imperative for an efficient use of our of very limited class time that we all have in our hands in class the same editions with the same translations and same pagination. These editions have been very carefully chosen after years of classroom experience and will form the core of our course work.

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FALL QUARTER BOOKS

Raymond P. Scheindlin
A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood
Oxford University Press, USA (July 27, 2000)
ISBN 0195139410

Robert Alter
The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
W. W. Norton & Company (September 2000)
ISBN 0393320774


Flavius Josephus
The Jewish War
Penguin Classics (Feb, 1984)
ISBN 0140444203


WINTER QUARTER BOOKS

Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Schocken; First Edition
ISBN 0805242589

Eva Hoffman
Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of the Polish Jews
PublicAffairs (Oct, 2007)
ISBN 1586485245


Salomon Maimon
An Autobiography
University of Illinois Press (April, 2001)
ISBN 0252069773


Rodger Kamenetz
Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka
Schocken (Oct, 2010)
ISBN 0805242570


SPRING QUARTER BOOKS

Amos Elon
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epock, 1743-1933
Norton paperback
ISBN 0312422814

Louis Begley
Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
Yale University Press (September 28, 2010)
ISBN 0300168144

S.Y. Abramovitsch, Sholem Aleichem, Ken Freiden (ed.)
Classic Yiddish Stories
Syracuse University Press
ISBN 0815607601

Primo Levi
The Periodic Table
Everyman's Library (October 1, 1996)
ISBN 0679444637

Quarterly Syllabi for
The History of the Jews

Fall Quarter

Thursday Nights

Oct 2011-Dec 2011

Winter Quarter

Thursday Nights

Jan 2012-March 2012

Spring Quarter

Thursday Nights

April 2012-June 2012