The New Jewish Encyclopedia

by David Bridger (Editor)

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This is more than a book of facts. To turn its pages is to explore the wonder and excitement and awesome adventure of what it means to be a Jew ... to stride through the grandeur of your inheritance, spanning the ages and the continents and the seas from Ur of the Chaldees and Pharaonic Egypt to present-day Israel and America.

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Common Knowledge

Original publication date
1962; 1976 (revised edition) (revised edition)
People/Characters
Leon Blum; Maimonides, Moses ben, 1135-1204
Important places
Palestine; Israel; Judah; Judea
First words
FOREWORD
ABBA EBAN: THE JEWISH HERITAGE
Thirty-five hundred years ago a small people in a corner of the East Mediterranean evolved ideas of startling depth and originality which have stirred the minds of men in all succ... (show all)eeding generations.

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Genres
Reference, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
296.03ReligionOther religionsJudaismJudaismDictionaries And Encyclopedias
LCC
DS102.8 .N4History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaAsiaHistory of AsiaIsrael (Palestine). The Jews

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