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Collects short stories, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs, and other first-person accounts expressing Jewish concerns, beliefs, and ideas
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An anthology of selections from some 100 written texts, plus about 50 b&w illustrations, encompassing expressions of Jewish thought and culture throughout history and the world. Offers pieces from short stories, essays, novels, biographies, and memoirs, in sections on aspects of Jewish experience such as living on the edge, growing up, victims and martyrs, women, and striking back, with section and individual introductions. Authors include Maimonides, Philip Roth, Franz Kafka, and Erica Mann Jong. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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