The Jews in the Modern World: A History since 1750

A synoptic history of Jewish experience from the mid-eighteenth century, edited by multiple scholars and issued in paperback as ISBN 0340691638.

The volume sets out the trajectory of modern Jewish life from the Enlightenment and emancipation period through the migrations and political reorganisation of the nineteenth century, the catastrophe of European Jewry in the 1940s, and the post-war reconstitution of Jewish communities in Israel, North America and the diaspora. Coverage extends across religious, demographic, intellectual and political history, and the volume is pitched at the level of an undergraduate survey course.

The authorship is collaborative: William D. Rubinstein worked across British, Australian and Jewish history and held chairs at Lancaster, the ANU, Deakin and Aberystwyth; Hilary L. Rubinstein bridged British naval history and modern Jewish studies; Dan Cohn-Sherbok is a Reform rabbi and Professor Emeritus of Judaism at the University of Wales; Abraham J. Edelheit teaches history at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. Arnold issued the volume as a compact narrative companion to the larger reference works in the field.