The Jewish holidays : a guide and commentary

by Michael Strassfeld

Paper Book, 1985

Call number

236 Strassfeld

Tags

jewish holidays

Subjects

Fasts and feasts Judaism

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.
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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.

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Available

Call number

236 Strassfeld

ISBN

0060154063 / 9780060154066

Barcode

30402092919242

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