The modern Jewish experience : a reader's guide / edited by Jack Wertheimer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Jews in early modern central and western Europe / M. Bodian -- Polish Jewry to the partitions / David E. Fishman -- The Jews in imperial Russia ; Soviet Jewry / Eli Lederhendler -- The Jews of Austria-Hungary / Marsha L. Rozenblit -- The Jews of North Africa and the Middle East / Jane Gerber -- American Jewish history / Jack Wertheimer -- Jews in Commonwealth countries / Gideon Shimoni -- Israeli society and culture / Chaim I. Waxman -- Latin American Jewry / Victor A. Mirelman -- The traditional Jewish community / M. Bodian -- Jewish emancipation ; Secular Jewish culture / David Weinberg -- Modern Jewish social history / Shulamit S. Magnus -- The mass migration of East European Jews / Jack Wertheimer -- Modern antisemitism and Jewish responses ; The Holocaust / Marsha L. Rozenblit -- Hasidism and its opponents / David E. Fishman -- Religious movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Eastern Europe / Allan L. Nadler. Modern Jewish religious movements / Alan Mittelman -- Modern Jewish politics / Eli Lederhendler -- Zionist ideology / Gideon Shimoni -- Religious culture and politics in Israel / Chaim I. Waxman -- Modern Jewish literature / David G. Roskies -- Jewish art in the modern era / Richard I. Cohen -- Jewish music in the modern era / Neil W. Levin -- Modern Jewish thought / Neil Gillman -- Modern Jewish demography / Sergio DellaPergola -- American and Canadian Jewish sociology / Stuart Schoenfeld -- An annotated guide to major reference works / Jack Wertheimer.