The Jewish experience
By: edited by Norman F. Cantor.
Contributors: Cantor, Norman F.
Edition: 1st. ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Jews -- Biography.; Jews -- History -- Sources.; Judaism -- History -- Sources.; Jews -- Fiction.; Jews -- Civilization.; Jewish fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.