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The Schocken guide to Jewish books : where to start reading about Jewish history, literature, culture, and religion

Title
The Schocken guide to Jewish books : where to start reading about Jewish history, literature, culture, and religion / edited by Barry W. Holtz.
Publication
New York : Schocken Books, [1992]

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Additional Authors
Holtz, Barry W.
Description
x, 357 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • The chapters in this book survey various areas of Jewish knowledge, recommending and describing books about each area. the subjects include the Bible, Talmud, Jewish history, the Holocaust, contemporary Israel, religious life ...
  • Customs, mysticism, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and Jewish feminism.
Alternative Title
Guide to Jewish books
Subject
  • Jews > Bibliography
  • Judaism > Bibliography
  • Jewish literature > Bibliography
  • Jewish literature
  • Jews
  • Judaism
  • Jewish literature Bibliography
  • Jews Bibliography
  • Judaism Bibliography
Genre/Form
Bibliographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Contents
Ports of entry : introductory Jewish books / Lawrence Square Kushner -- The Bible and its world / Everett Fox -- The world of the Talmud / Eliezer Diamond -- The Jewish Middle Ages / Ivan G. Marcus -- The European experience : Jews confront modernity / Michael Stanislawski -- The American Jewish experience / Jonathan D. Sarna -- The Holocaust / Deborah E. Lipstadt -- Israel and Zionism / David Twersky -- Jewish mysticism / Elliot K. Ginsburg -- Jewish philosophy : medieval and modern / Michael Paley and Jacob J. Staub -- Jewish women's studies / Sue Levi Elwell -- Hebrew literature / Alan Mintz -- Yiddish literature / David G. Roskies -- The Jewish Novelist in America / Mark Shechner -- The bar/bat mitzvah book / Rita Berman Frischer.
Call Number
Z6366
ISBN
  • 0805241086
  • 9780805241082
  • 0805210059
  • 9780805210057
LCCN
91017760
OCLC
23690471
Title
The Schocken guide to Jewish books : where to start reading about Jewish history, literature, culture, and religion / edited by Barry W. Holtz.
Publisher
New York : Schocken Books, [1992]
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Additional Formats
Also issued online.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
Copy 2: Irwin T. & Shirley Holtzman collection of Henry Roth.
Indexed Term
Jewish literature Bibliography
Jews Bibliography
Judaism Bibliography
Added Author
Holtz, Barry W., editor.
Other Form:
Online version: Schocken guide to Jewish books. 1st ed. New York : Schocken Books, ©1992 (OCoLC)644124557
Research Call Number
*R-JWS Z6366 .S39 1992
*PAM 92-3629
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