Every tallit tells a tale / Debra W. Smith, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Debra W., editor.

Library of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Tallitot (Jewish liturgical objects).

Judaism--Customs and practices.

Judaism.

Penn Provenance:

Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)

Smith, Debra W. (autograph)

Physical Description:

xvi, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Randolph, N.J. : Stella Hart, Inc., [2005]

Language Note:

Includes the prayer, in Hebrew and in English translation, recited upon putting on a tallit.

Contents:

Preface / Diana Drew

The Tallit : a brief history & overview

Introduction / Debra W. Smith

My journey from the fringe to the fringes / Debra W. Smith

L'dor v'dor, from generation to generation / Diana Drew : A Tallit imbued with hope / Howard Siegel

Through my mother's tears / Linda Hoffman Kay

My father's Tallit / Rabbi Evan Radler

My grandfather's Tallit / Robert Grayson

My Tallit Mitzvah / Marcia Bronstein

The curtain of heaven / Shoni Evan BenDavid

A special Tallit ritual for Brianna / Rabbi Amy Small, Ava Schlesinger

Last letter from my father / Frada Sklar Wallach

A beloved father's Tallit / Sheldon Scholl

Tallit traditions / Rabbi Edward Goldstein

The Cavaricci Tallit / Rabbi Joel Soffin

Rebel without a shawl / H. Lewis Stone

Papa's Tallit / Anne Krasner

Weddings and wilderness / Dave Bean

Mom's Tallit / Farrell Bloch

I gave my mother a Tallit for her birthday / Beth Levin

A Tallit that still speaks to me / Harold Kalter

The flea market Tallit / Patricia Ann Wilson Reber

Tallit links / Helen Ray Gelman Rib

Sheltered under a Tallit / Dorothy Talmadge

The past generation is forever / Marden David Paru

The faces of my family / Ruth Israely

A family heirloom / Shirley Lockshin

Jerry / Harriet R. Goren

In the beginning, the first time / Diana Drew : A momentous decision / Aileen Grossberg

My Tallit speaks / Bernice Todres

My Tallit enfolds me / Sheila Rubin

Tallit for a late Bat Mitzvah / Davi Walders

To Daven like a man / Mindy Sandel

With strings attached / Felice Sachs

Singing in her heart / Dolly Grobstein

My shelter of peace / Sondra Levin

A hug from God / Sandy Rosenfield

Only the right Tallit will do / Rabbi Judith Edelstein

A Tallit (or two) to call my own / Sharon Barkauskas

What my Tallit means to me / Sara Shapiro-Plevan

As natural as breathing / Rabbi Elyse Wechterman

"Ouch," said the Torah, or the power of the Tallit / Susan Marx

An invincibility cloak / Sandy Sussman.

Dreamweavers, inspired by design / Diana Drew : The full circle Tallit / Francine Miller

Shoshannah's Tallit / Paula Barber

The Hebrew school project / Muriel Hertan

A Tallit wrapped in memories / Rosanne Bornstein

The Tallit we invited to my daughter's Bat Mitzvah / Lori Cohen

A tale of two Tallitot / Shirley Musikant

Louis's Tallit / Deborah Green

Poppa's Tallitot / Marilyn Waxman

Shoshana & her Tallit / Sherri Roberts

A Tallit uniquely my own / Rabbi Beverly Weintraub Magidson

The intricacies of fashioning Tallitot / Menorah Rotenberg

Finding my way / Cantor Geri Zeller

These are the fringes that bind us together / Susan North Gilboa

A Tallit's purpose becomes clear / Hannah Sue Margolis

The picture-perfect Tallit / Toby Gang

Rediscovering a Tallit / Deborah Lurie Edery

Allison's Bat Mitzvah Tallit / Helene Goodman

Saved from the ashes, Holocaust-era Tallitot / Diana Drew : Tallitot at Auschwitz / Davi Walders

A Tallit rescued from the ashes / Estelle Sofer

The special Tallit / Rabbi Yisrael Gordon

Life's hidden messages / Marshall Botkin

The adventurous life of my Tallit / Harry Arpadi

The Holy Land, Tallitot from Israel / Diana Drew : The forty-two-year-old Tallit / Yitz (Ira) Rubin

From Israel with love / Laurie Kimmelstiel

A Tallit from the Holy Land that sanctifies a family / Rabbi Andy Koren

A day of mixed feelings / Riette Thomas Smith

The gift / Allan Rabinowitz

Blue and white and respected / Batsheva Pomerantz

Endings and beginnings, beginnings and endings : Against all odds / Debra W. Smith

Epilogue : Tallit of my heart / Debra W. Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page xvi).

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.

ISBN:

9780976811800

0976811804

OCLC:

149633642