Jewish Literacy
The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Publisher: William Morrow, 1991
Ranges through all of Jewish history and literature to extract the enduring concepts that one needs to know to be a culturally literate and informed modern Jew. The basic terms and concepts of Judaism and the most significant facts, events, and personalities of Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life are presented. Chapters range from the Bible and the Talmud, to medieval and modern periods in Europe, Zionism, the Holocaust, American Jewish life, Soviet Jewry, anti-Semitism, ethics, the Hebrew calendar and the Jewish holidays.(640 Pages)
"Here at last is a book of fundamental Jewish information, a veritable treasury of truly important concepts, that is consistently interesting, even delightful, reading. . . written with wise, all-embracing intelligence, leavened with insight and wit."- Rabbi Irving Greenberg, CLAL
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