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Triumph Of Survival The Story of the Jews in the Modern Era 1650-1995 By Rabbi Berel Wein (Author)  List Price: $59.99 Online Discount: 10% You Pay Only: $53.99 Catalog #: TRIU ISBN-10: 0899064981 ISBN-13: 9780899064987 Binding: Hardcover / Pages: 508 Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches / Weight: 4.20 LBS Published: by Shaar Press In Stock?: YES Quantity:  1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950

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Through his hundreds of lectures, Rabbi Wein has brought the Torah perspective on history to thousands of listeners. In this original work, he paints a magnificent, panoramic picture of our people in the centuries that shaped us and our world. This major work has the touches of luxury you expect in books of this magnitude, including a ribbon place-marker and embossed foil-stamped jacket. Large 8-1/2" x 11" "coffee-table" format. Beautifully written and illustrated, it is accurate and incisive, yet personal and passionate. It is informative, provocative, and inspiring. Seldom is must reading so enjoyable.

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Table of Contents

• Prologue

• Tach V'Tat: Winds of Change / The Rise of Chmielnicki / Overwhelming Slaughter / Rabbinic Leaders Suffer with Their Flocks / Resolving Controversies / Chmielnicki's Demise
• Shabtai Tzvi: Formative Years / Strange Bedfellows / Exposure as False Messiah
• Regrets and Recriminations: Heretics and Excommunication / Yavetz vs. Ramchal / Rabbi Yaakov Emden and Rabbi Yonasan Eybeshitz / Jacob Frank

• The New World and The Changing World
• Moses Mendelssohn
• Reform Sweeps All - Almost: Emancipation and Its Options / Accomodating to the Times / Failure of Expectations
• Orthodoxy Responds: Rabbi Isaac Bamberger / Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch / The Chasam Sofer
• The Rothschilds and Moses Montefiore: Mayer Amshel Rothschild / Moses Montefiore
• Napoleon: Liberal Attitude / Ulterior Motive / Ultimate Defeat / Lasting Effects
• Torah Scholarship and Survival of Tradition

• Chassidus: Baal Shem Tov / Maggid of Mezeritch / Counter-Revolution / Chassidic Leaders
• The Gaon of Vilna: A non-leading Leader / Herculean Task / Disparate Reasons / The Value of Wisdom / Studying Kabbalah
• Misnagdim - The Reaction to Chassidus: Strong Opposition / Reconciling the Difference / The Government Intervenes / The Battle Subsides
• The Yeshivos: A Departure from Tradition / Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin / The Mantle Passes On / Conflicting Styles / Czarist Authorities Interfere
• The Yeshivah Movement Expands: Mier / Slobodka / Radin / Telshe / Slutzk-Kletzk-Lakewood / Novardok - Beis Yosef / Pressburg
• The Haskalah: Enlightenment and Reform / Secular Hebrew Literature / Lasting Influence

• Russian Oppression Under the Czars: Czar Alexander I / Czar Nocholas I / Czar Alexander II
• Unrest and Anti-Semitism: Czar Alexander III / Czar Nicholas II / Famine and War / The Duma / Changing Times
• Tradition Embattled: Pressures on Two Fronts / Distorted Ideals / Secular Vs. Traditional / Effects of Industrialitzation
• The Mussar Movement - Ethical Rebirth: Rabbi Yisrael Salanter / Observance With a Soul / Offshoots of Mussar's Growth / Opposition
• New Yearnings: Jewish Nationalism / Agriculture and Labor / Changing the Balance of Power

• Emigration to America: The Safe Shore / Helping Hands / Mixed Messages
• Return to Zion: The First Aliyah / Boon or Bane
• Political Zionism: The Dreyfus Affair / Theodor Herzl / Orthodox Opposition to Zionism / Herzl Makes Headway / Uganda Uncacceptable
• Social Revolution: Changing the World / The Chofetz Chaim / The Radical Left / Agudath Israel / The Second Aliyah / Jews in Name Only / The Reform Movement
• Conservative Judaism / Search For Leadership / Birth of the American Yeshivah / Reaching For the Silver Ring
• The Great War 1914-1918: Destruction and Defeat / Conflicts / The Balfour Declaration / The Jewish Brigade / The Russian Revolution / Armistice

• After the Conflict: New Countries, Old Problems / Polish Jewry / Czechoslovakia and Hungary / Jewish Political Divisions / Germany Teeters on the Brink / Spiritual Revival
• Palestine For Whom?: The New Rulers / Arab Unrest / The First Partition / Hebron Pogrom / Internal Divisions
• Assimilation Forever!: The Roaring Twenties / Jewish Secularism / Defining Relationships / Rabbi Kook / Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi / Hostility Breeds Violence
• American Jewry in the 1920's: Hellp for Other Jews / Movie Industry / Upward Mobility / Planned Assimilation / Tradition Takes Root
• Jews Under Moslem Rule: A Protected Minority / Contempt Evolves into Hatred

• Hitler Comes to Power: Blueprint For a New Germany / The World Ignores the Threat / "Peace in Our Time"
• Hitler's War Against the Jews: All the Doors Are Closed / Reign of Terror / Traumatized, Isolated and Defenseless / Life in the Ghetto / The War Accelerates
• War and Holocaust: Terror / Turmoil / The Final Solution / Train Ride to Hell / Genocide Downplayed / Too Few Rescue Efforts / Disbelief, Not Despair / Jewish Resistance
• Arab Response / Rommel's Afrika / Korps / Yishuv Provides Limited Aid / Help for Hungarian Jews / Seven Stories of Suffering
• The State of Israel: Time of Turmoil / Palestine Partitioned / Arabs Fight or Flee / Jerusalem Under Siege / British Mandate Ends / The Jewish State / Arabs Invade Israel / The Isarel Defense Force
• The Miracle of Survival: Ingathering of the Exiles / Coalition Government / "Status Quo" / U.N. Admits Israel / German Reparations / The Kastner Trial / Ben Gurion Resigns and Returns / New Growth of Torah

• The New Jewish World: Changing Times / Fund Raising / Wave of the Future / Orthodox Resurgence / Orthodox Education System / Chassidic Movements Resurgent / New World of Oppurtunity
• The Six-Day War: Search For Nazi Killers / Arab Extremism / Church Attitude Towards Israel / War Erupts Once Again / The Western Wall Reclaimed / Hope For Peace In Vain
• The Changing Face of Jewry: Orthodox Resurgence Continues / Success Breeds Imitators / Religious Revolution In Russia / Breakdown of Basic Values
• The Yom Kippur War: Sadat's Year of Decision / Israel Wins the Battle But. / .Loses the War of World Opinion / The War of World Opinion / The Begin Era Begins / Camp David
• Towards Peace?: In the Shadow of Camp David / The New Face of Terror / The Fall of Communism / Iran and Iraq / The Persian Gulf War / Israel's 1992 Elections / To Oslo and Beyond / The Rabin Assassination and Its Aftermath