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The eighth and final volume in The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from 1815-2000. Exploring a broad array of Jewish societies and their engagements with the modern world, it also offers more focused essays on political, social, cultural, intellectual and economic developments.

This volume provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, with chapters written by approximately forty leading international experts. It will be essential for all serious academic libraries, as a reference tool and as a point of entry for advanced students and scholars into the topics covered.

This volume opens with three introductory chapters to the work as a whole dealing with the geographical background, the chronology and the numismatic history of Judaism.

This is the second of four volumes covering the history of Judaism from the Persian period, roughly 539-322 BCE, to the Tannaitic period, which culminated in the codification of the Mishnah around 250 CE. The volume describes both the rejection and adoption of Hellenism by Judaism.

Volume four of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. It focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

The eighth and final volume in The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from 1815-2000. Exploring a broad array of Jewish societies and their engagements with the modern world, it also offers more focused essays on political, social, cultural, intellectual and economic developments.

Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. From the smallest and weakest of the world's Jewish centers in the year 1000, the Jewish communities of western Christendom emerged - despite considerable obstacles - as the world's dominant Jewish center by the end of the Middle Ages.

This volume provides an authoritative and detailed overview of early modern Jewish history, with chapters written by approximately forty leading international experts. It will be essential for all serious academic libraries, as a reference tool and as a point of entry for advanced students and scholars into the topics covered.

Volume 5 examines the history of Judaism in the Islamic World from the rise of Islam in the early sixth century to the expulsion of Jews from Spain at the end of the fifteenth.