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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-04 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-12-01 - Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of Babel, placing the
Language: en
Pages: 449
Pages: 449
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Throughout the ages, Jews have connected legends to particular days of the Hebrew calendar. Abraham's birth, the death of Rachel, and the creation of light are
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Behrman House, Inc
Rabbi Cardin--writing as a religious leader, friend, neighbor, wife, mother, and daughter--guides us toward a fuller understanding of Judaism. She invites us to
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-28 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substant