Research Catalog

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, c1992.

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Additional Authors

Holtz, Barry W.

Description

x, 357 p. : ill.; 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.
• Guide to Jewish books

Subject

• Jews > Bibliography
• Judaism > Bibliography
• Jewish literature > Bibliography

Genre/Form

Bibliographies

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0805241086 :

LCCN

^^^91017760^//r92

OCLC

• 23690471
• SCSB-11525680

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library