A big collection of primary documents on Jewish thought and history in the modern period. It's a sourcebook (and popular university text) illustrating the transformation of religion, culture, and identity from the 17th century to 1948. With chapters on political emancipation in Western Europe, reform and conservatism, Jewish studies, identity, antisemitism, Eastern Europe Jewry, Zionism and the Holocaust.  (GEN224, $64.95)