Norman F. Cantor "The Jewish Experience."
This study contains almost 150 written texts in the form of short stories, essays, novels, biographies and memoirs to give the reader an insight into every aspect of Jewish life and experience. It includes contributions from many well-known Jews including Anne Frank, Philip Roth, and Franz Kafka.
This collection of essays, short stories, memoirs, and excerpts from novels ranges from subjects as diverse as theology, history, Jewish humor, and Holocaust survival to Erica Jong's reflections on sexual fulfillment. It is a book which should be owned by every family interested in studying the roots and multifaceted social contributions of a people whose religion emerged nearly four centuries before the birth of Joshua, "whom the Gentiles Jesus call."
Over 3,000 years of Jewish culture, history and thought are brought to life in The Jewish Experience. Containing selections from more than 100 written texts as well as more than 50 illustrations. In addition, the book includes Professor Cantor's insightful commentary that puts the selections into context. As such, it assembles expressions and descriptions of Jewish feeling and reason, hope and despair, expectation and disappointment, ambition and love throughout history and throughout the world.
Hardcover. Illustrations. 1999.
New book. Very clean.