"Jews and Judaism in World History" is a survey of the history of the Jewish people from biblical antiquity to the present. The book opens with a broad introduction which looks at questions of terminology and definition, the relationship of Jewish and non-Jewish society, assimilation, the expansion of rabbinic Judaism into a way of life, Jewish identity and diversity. Eleven chapters then each outline a different stage across Jewish history."Jews and Judaism in World History" presents Jewish history not simply as the history of Judaism, but also as the development of a social structure, polity, and a culture with religious and non-religious dimensions. It captures both the diverse political, social, and cultural contexts in which Jewish history unfolded and the continuities that traversed the Jewish world from Persia to the Pacific. Incorporating and engaging with the most up to date scholarship and exploring overarching themes in a broad, comparative context, Howard N. Lupovitch demonstrates the intimate and inexorable nexus between Jewish and World History.