Previously published: New York, NY : Macmillan, 1998

Israelite origins and kingdom (Before 1220 B.C.E. to 587 B.C.E.) -- Judea and the origins of the Diaspora (587 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.) -- Roman Palestine and Sassanid Babylonia (70 C.E. to 632) -- The Jews in the Islamic world: from the rise of Islam to the end of the Middle Ages (632 to 1500) -- The Jews of medieval Christian Europe (Ninth century to 1500) -- The Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East (1453 to 1948) -- The Jews of Western Europe (1500 to 1900) -- The Jews of Eastern Europe and the United States (1770 to 1940) -- The Holocaust -- Zionism and the origins of the state of Israel -- The Jewish people after 1948