The Jewish experience / edited by Norman F. Cantor.

Containing selections from more than 100 written texts as well as more than 50 illustrations - this collection includes short stories, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs and other first-person accounts. each of the Book's ten parts is devoted to a specific theme in jewish culture and experien...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Cantor, Norman F.
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Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins, c1996.
Edition:1st. ed.
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505 0 |a Clan / George Weidenfeld -- Stalin's Jews / Arkady Vaksberg -- Moses - The Haggadah -- Solomon - The Haggadah -- Akiba - The Haggadah -- Maimonides / Moses Ben Maimon -- Dreyfus / Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola -- Einstein / Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Clark -- B. 
505 0 |a Jewish Business / Jerome Weidman -- A Capitalist Triumph / Abraham Cahan -- The Goldwater Story / Howard Simons -- Tel Aviv, 1939 / Arthur Koestler -- Between Two Worlds / Itsik Feffer -- Father and Son / Henry Roth -- Mottel Gets a Job / Sholem Aleichem -- A Writer's Beginning / I. L. Peretz -- The Three-Star Canadian Bar Mitzvah / Mordechai Richler -- Sex and Money in Newark / Philip Roth -- Marriage in Medieval Cairo / S. D. Goitein -- The Story of a Marriage / Solomon Maimon -- Jack and Sadie / Jack Benny -- An Intellectual Couple Starts Out / Diana Trilling -- The Rattle of a Simple Man / I. L. Peretz -- The Struggle for Survival / Mendele Mokher Seforim -- Why Do Jews Like Chinese Food? / Ivan Kalmar -- Why I Did Not Become a Professor / Bernard Berenson -- Dying and Burial / Bernard Malamud -- The Laws of Mourning - The Shulchan Orech -- Sitting Shiva / Mordechai Richler -- A Good Mother Remembered / S. D. Goitein -- The Essentials of Biblical Judaism - Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Job, Psalms -- The Exile from Eden / Robert Graves and Raphael Patai -- The Day of Atonement / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- Talmudic Angelology - The Babylonian Talmud -- Kabbalah - The Zohar -- Making a Golem / Gershom Scholem -- Sectarian Conflict / Abraham Ibn Daud -- Wisdom Derives from Many Sources / Jacob Anatoli -- The Messiah Has Come! / Nathan of Gaza -- The Essentials of Hasidism / Martin Buber -- The Sayings of Rabbi Nachman / Nachman of Bratislava -- Reform Judaism / Isaac Mayer Wise -- Neo-Orthodoxy / Joseph B. Soloveitchik -- Creative Life-Force Among Jews / Franz Rosenzweig -- Transactional Theology / Martin Buber -- The Meaning of the Covenant / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- The Poets' Laments / Chaim Nachman Bialik, Perets Markish and Abraham Sutzkever -- A Novelist's Insight / Aharon Appelfeld -- Auschwitz / Primo Levi -- The Final Solution / Leni Yahl -- The Elimination of Hungarian Jewry / Hannah Arendt -- Jewish Collaborators with the Germans / Raul Hilberg -- Decline and Fall in Lodz / I. J. Singer -- Exile from Alexandria / Andre Aciman -- The Martyrdom of Colonel Marcus / Dan Kurzman -- 1492 / Henry Kamen -- Masada / Josephus Flavius -- The Alexandrian Sage / Philo Judaeus -- Medieval Merchants / Norman A. Stillman -- The Jewish Town / Der Nister -- Government and Law in the Shtetl / Diane K. Roskies and David G. Roskies -- Shtetl Derivatives / Maurice Samuel -- The Lower East Side / Irving Howe -- A Reconstituted Life / I. B. Singer -- I Never Prayed with My Father / Franz Kafka -- The Return to Zion / S. Y. Agnon -- Seventy Years Later / Amos Oz -- The Geniza World / Ammiel Alcalay -- The Orientals / Tom Segev -- The Talmudic Rabbis Give Sex Lessons / Daniel Boyarin -- Sex, Marriage, and Birth Control / Chaim Bermant -- A Jewish Businesswoman in the Seventeenth Century / Gluckel of Hameln -- A Hasidic Baby Girl / Esther Singer Kreitman -- Under Hitler's Shadow / Anne Frank -- The New American / Mary Antin -- The Market / Adele Wiseman -- The Activist / Henrietta Szold -- A Neo-Orthodox Feminist / Blu Greenberg -- The Hollywood Image of American Jewish Women / Letty Cotton Pogrebin -- A New York Princess in Nazi-Land / Erica Mann Jong -- Are the Jews Genetically Superior? / Raphael Patai -- Judaism versus Medieval Christianity and Islam / Maimonides -- The Perpetual Superiority of Israel / Judah Halevi -- A Jewish Prince in Medieval Baghdad / Benjamin of Tudela -- The Great American Retailers / Leon Harris -- Hollywood Moguls / Irving Lazar -- Chicago Jew Wins Nobel Prize for Literature / Malcolm Bradbury -- Warsaw, April 1943: Germans versus Jews / S. B. Beit Zvi -- The Romantic Image of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt / Sholem Asch -- Victory / Yael Dayan -- Elation / Saul Friedlander -- Jerusalem the Golden / Amos Elon -- The. 
520 |a Containing selections from more than 100 written texts as well as more than 50 illustrations - this collection includes short stories, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs and other first-person accounts. each of the Book's ten parts is devoted to a specific theme in jewish culture and experience: living on the edge, growing up, maturing and dying, divine intoxication, victims and martyrs, hoping and coping, women, striking back, icons and alternative intimations. 
650 0 |a Jews  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x History  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Judaism  |x History  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Jews  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Jews  |x Civilization. 
650 0 |a Jewish fiction. 
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