The Book of Jewish Books: A Reader's Guide to Judaism

Frank, Ruth S.; Wollheim, William

ISBN 10: 0060630086 / ISBN 13: 9780060630089

Published by Harper & Row, 1986, New York, 1986

About this Item

320 pp. Index. Dust jacket has two short edge tears, a couple of nicks, edge creasing, otherwise nice and bright. Previous owner's inscriptions on both sides of front free endpaper. Interior clean, binding tight. Pages 209-240 bound backwards and upside down. An annotated bibliography of books concerning Jews and Judaism listed by categories, each introduced by an expert in the category.

Seller Inventory # 23264

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Jewish Books: A Reader's Guide to Judaism
• Publisher: Harper & Row, 1986, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060630086
• ISBN 13: 9780060630089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Jewish

About this title

Synopsis

Provides an annotated list of children's books, prayer books, Jewish literature, and books about Israel, zionism, the arts, and Jewish history, life, and traditions

Reviews

This useful guide to the best books about Judaism contains approximately 500 annotated entries listing books on such topics as the Bible, Jewish thought, Jewish history, the Holocaust, the arts, Israel, prayer books, and women. Despite the few questionable inclusions and omissions inevitable in undertakings of this nature, this collection is a fairly solid work. Its greatest weakness is the skimpy chapter on Jewish fiction, which could have been omitted with no great loss. Helpful features include the essays introducing each section, listings of Jewish periodicals and Jewish bookstores, and a glossary. Recommended as a basic, introductory bibliography to Judaica for the non-expert Jewish or non-Jewish general reader. Robert A. Silver, Shaker Heights P.L., Ohio
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