The Jewish Holidays: A Guide and Commentary

by Michael Strassfeld

Book, 1985

Barcode

123458320

Call number

236 STR

Tags

Holidays

Genres

Collection

Observance & Practice

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, c1985.

Description

The coeditor of the enormously popular Jewish Catalog "help[s] readers understand more fully the meaning of our holidays and thereby to observe these festivals . . . with a greater devotion and joy."--Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler

User reviews

LibraryThing member drinkingtea
I like the pictures and the variety of practices it shows. If you are looking for a how-to book, though, this is not for you.
1 more
LibraryThing member raizel
A guide to the holidays of the Jewish year. Along the outer margins are comments from Arnold Eisen, Everett Gendler, Arthur Green, Edward L. Greenstein, and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

Subjects

Fasts and feastsJudaism

ISBN

0060154063 / 9780060154066

Local notes


Similar in this library

Living a Jewish Life: Jewish Traditions, Customs, and Values for Today's Families by Anita Diamant
How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household by Blu Greenberg
To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the Synagogue Service by Hayim Donin
The Second Jewish Catalog: Sources & Resources by Sharon Strassfeld
The Jewish Catalog: A Do-It-Yourself Kit by Richard Siegel
28 more
The New Jewish Baby Book: Names, Ceremonies & Customs -- A Guide for Today's Families by Anita Diamant
The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
The Sukkot/Simhat Torah Anthology by Philip Goodman
The Yom Kippur Anthology by Philip Goodman
The Third Jewish Catalog: Creating Community by Sharon Strassfeld
The New Jewish Wedding by Anita Diamant
The Complete Book of Jewish Observance by Leo Trepp
Finding God: Ten Jewish Responses ten Jewish responses by Rifat Sonsino
Sabbath: The Day of Delight by Abraham Ezra Millgram
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History by Joseph Telushkin
The Rosh Hashanah Anthology by Philip Goodman
The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning by Maurice Lamm
I am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl by Judea Pearl
The Service of the Heart: A Guide to the Jewish Prayer Book by Evelyn Garfiel
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew by Neil Gillman
Days of Awe: A Treasury of Traditions, Legends and Learned Commentaries Concerning Rosh Ha-Shanah, Yo Kippur and the Days Between by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
The Second Jewish Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch
To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life by Hayim Donin
The Hanukkah Anthology by Philip Goodman
The Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays by Malka Drucker
The Purim Anthology by Philip Goodman
Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Judaism as a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American Jewish Life by Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
The Art of Jewish Living: The Passover Seder by Ron Wolfson
Great Jews in Sports by Robert Slater
To Life! A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking by Harold S. Kushner
A History of the Jewish Experience Book 1, Torah and history : Book 2, Torah, mitzvot, and Jewish thought by Leo Trepp
Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead & Mourn As a Jew by Anita Diamant

More

Amazon.com
Page: 0.1626 seconds