On Being a Jew

Name: On Being a Jew
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ISBN: 9780060649081

ISBN-10: 0060649089

ISBN-13: 9780060649081

Edition: N/A

Authors: James L. Kugel

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Composed as a meandering dialogue between a wily Syrian-Jewish banker and an American graduate student of literature, this engaging book explains all the basic beliefs and practices of JudaismJewish teachings on intermarriage and conversion, keeping the

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English


On Marrying a Protestant	p. 3

No Generalities	p. 21
Three Types of Synagogue	p. 25
The Mishkan	p. 32
Shabbat	p. 39
"This Is My God"	p. 43
The Shema	p. 50
Hebrew	p. 54
The Advantage of a Poet	p. 58

Books	p. 65
Music	p. 79
Branches	p. 88
Prayer	p. 98
Klein and Gross	p. 109
A Lawnmower	p. 112
Korah	p. 119
Jacob	p. 129

"Physical" Mitzvot	p. 137
Kosher	p. 141
Kedushah	p. 145
Interpretation	p. 150
The Bird's Nest	p. 158
History	p. 163
Israel	p. 167
Elsewhere	p. 176

Israelis	p. 181
Afterword	p. 189
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