Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XIII; 383 S.; Illustr.; 23 cm; fadengeh., farb. illustr. Orig.-Pappband.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex. ; Vorsatz mit priv. Widmung. - Englisch; hebräisch. - INHALT : INTRODUCTION ---- A NOTE ON USAGE xiii ---- ECCLESIASTES ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- ESTHER ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- SONG OF SONGS ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- RUTH ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- LAMENTATIONS ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- LITURGY FOR THE FESTIVALS ---- A GUIDE FOR FURTHER READING. // This presentation of the Five Scrolls, with liturgies for the festivals, is intended as a contribution to the process of the religious renewal of American Jewry. For a long time Western Jewry had suffered a process of spiritual disruption and debilitation. In the course of scarcely a century and a half, Jewry experienced the upheaval of the great migrations from Europe to America. As great as were the physical disruptions, the cultural devastation was greater still. American society was a frontier world. American society was preoccupied with establishing the material basis of life. Isaac Mayer Wise, a founder of Reform Judaism, could not find on the entire continent, when he first arrived here in the mid-nineteenth century, even a single copy of a basic book of Jewish law, the Mishnah. There were large numbers of unlearned Jews without the basic knowledge or skills to understand or to express Jewish spirituality. ? (Vorwort) ISBN 0916694801