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The Earth is the Lord's : the inner world of the Jew in Eastern Europe / by Abraham Joshua Heschel ; with wood engravings by Ilya Schor.
Library at the Katz Center - Processing BM290 .H47 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972.
- Series:
- Jewish Lights classic reprint
- A Jewish Lights classic reprint
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--Europe, Eastern.
- Judaism.
- Spiritual life--Judaism.
- Spiritual life.
- Jewish way of life.
- Jews--Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs.
- Jews.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Eastern Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., [1995]
- Summary:
- Powerfully and beautifully portrays a bygone Jewish culture. An eloquent masterpiece, originally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Includes woodcut illustrations by Ilya Schor.
- Contents:
- The sigh
- "With all thy heart"
- The two great traditions
- For the people
- The luxuries of learning
- Pilpul
- A world of palimpsests
- The deed sings
- The devout men of Ashkenaz
- Kabbalah
- Hasidim
- "Love the wicked"
- Thirty-six Zaddikim
- "Guard my tongue from evil"
- The untold story.
- Notes:
- Previously published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1949.
- ISBN:
- 1879045427
- 9781879045422
- OCLC:
- 31971203
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