Research Catalog

Title

The soul of the text : an anthology of Jewish literature.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Great Books Foundation, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Great Books Foundation (U.S.)

Description

xvi, 256 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Bible. > Commentaries
• 1939-1945
• Jewish literature > Translations into English
• Rabbinical literature > Translations into English
• Yiddish literature > Translations into English
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Literary collections
• Israel

Genre/Form

• Commentaries
• Literary collections
• Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ONE: THE BIBLE AND MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIE -- The Creation to the Tower of Babel : Genesis 1-3,4:1-16,6:5-22, 7-9, 11:1-9 -- Commentary on Genesis / Moses Nahmanides -- The Story of Abraham : Genesis 12:1-9,13, 15-19,22:1-19 -- Commentary on Genesis / Rashi -- The Story of David and Bathsheba : II Samuel 11-12 -- TWO: RABBINICAL LITERATURE -- A Threefold Cord -- Torah Study -- Who Is Wise? -- Issues of Life and Death -- The Story of Rabbi Eleazar and the Ugly Man -- Beyond the Letter of the Law -- A Heavenly Voice -- THREE: YIDDISH LITERATURE -- Bontshe Shvayg I. L. Peretz -- Chava Sholem Aleichem -- Gimpel the Fool Isaac Bashevis Singer -- FOUR: THE HOLOCAUST AND ERETZ ISRAEL -- The Meaning of This Hour -- Abraham / Joshua Heschel -- Miriam / Ivan Klima -- Written in Pencil in the Sealed -- Railway-Car / Dan Pagis -- Fable of the Goat / S. Y. Agnon -- The Land of Israel Abraham / Isaac Kook -- Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary (selection) and Blessed Is the Match Hannah Senesh -- The Diameter of the Bomb -- Yehuda Amichai.

ISBN

1880323842 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00028824^

OCLC

• 970833703
• SCSB-10921936

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library