Imperial Europe
Europe and the Jews: Part 2
The Age of Modernity

Imperialism has a bad name today, but it enabled the Jews to escape Eastern Europe and resettle other parts of the world. Whether it was “Golden America” or the Holy Land, the Jews who fled fared better than those who stayed behind. Comparing the age of exploration to today’s explosion of technology, Rabbi Wein gives a frank and honest assessment of the impact of imperialism on the Jewish people and on the world at large.

• Disraeli, Queen Victoria, and the rise of the British Empire
• Jews and the California gold rush
• the three Jewish barons and their charitable efforts
• the strange ironies of Russian Jews in the Ottoman Empire