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The Shavuot anthology / edited by Philip Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- JPS holiday anthologies.
- The JPS holiday anthologies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shavuot--Literary collections.
- Shavuot.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 369 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, 1991.
- Summary:
- Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of classic and contemporary writings, they have long guided rabbis, cantors, educators, and other readers seeking the origins, meanings, and varied celebrations of the Jewish festivals. The Shavuot Anthology elucidates Shavuot's teachings, customs, stories, and lore for a modern generation. In this in-depth compendium, writings by Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Talmud and midrash, medieval literature by Moses Maimonides, poetry by Judah Halevi and Abraham ibn Ezra, prose by Abraham Joshua Heschel and Ahad Ha'am, and stories by Martin Buber and Sholom Aleichem appear alongside art and dramatizations, arts and crafts, culinary arts and humor, children's stories and games, and programs and projects.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Note from the Publisher
- Preface
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Shavuot in the Bible
- The Feast of the Harvest
- The Giving of Our Torah
- The Scroll of Ruth
- 2 Shavuot in Postbiblical Writings
- Moses Receives the Tablets of the Law from the Book of Jubilees
- Moses Delivers the Decalogue by Flavius Josephus
- Why the Torah Was Given in the Desert by Philo of Alexandria
- Why the Laws Are Addressed to Every Individual by Philo of Alexandria
- The Patriarchs Celebrate Shavuot from the Book of Jubilees
- Tobit's Feast Turned into Mourning from Tobit
- Pentecost in Wartime by Flavius Josephus
- The Maccabean Warriors Observe the Feast of Weeks from II Maccabees
- 3 Shavuot in Talmud and Midrash
- The Mountain Chosen for the Revelation
- When the Torah Was Given
- The Nations Refuse the Torah
- The Public Presentation of the Torah
- Moses Ascends on High to Receive the Law
- The Lord Speaks to the People
- The Children Become the Sureties
- Israel Accepts the Torah
- Moses Breaks the Tablets of the Law
- The Ten Commandments
- The 613 Commandments
- The Transmission of the Oral Law
- The Oral Law
- The Bringing of the Firstfruits
- The Celebration of Shavuot
- 4 Shavuot in Medieval Jewish Literature
- The Belief in Divine Providence by Judah Halevi
- Strength Comes through Belief by Moses Maimonides
- Moses Experiences the Revelation by Moses Maimonides
- The Torah Is Given in Public by Joseph Albo
- The Two Tablets of the Law by Joseph Albo
- The Decalogue Established the World from the Zohar
- The Bride and the Bridegroom from the Zohar
- One Day Only for the Feast of Weeks from the Zohar
- The Anniversary of the Revelation by Moses Maimonides
- 5 Laws and Customs of Shavuot
- The Period of Shavuot.
- The Night of Shavuot (Tikkun Lei Shavuot)
- The Scriptural Readings
- Floral Decorations
- 6 The Liturgy of Shavuot
- I Am, Thou Didst Proclaim by Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun
- Loud Rang the Voice by Eleazar Kalir
- Before the Words of God Are Read (Akdamut) by Meir ben Isaac Nehorai
- Introduction to Azharot by David ben Eleazar Bekuda
- Precepts He Gave His Folk by Elijah ben Menahem ha-Zaken
- Thine Own Sweet Words by Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun
- The Myriad Angels' Songs by Jacob ben Meir
- Marriage Certificate for Shavuot by Israel Najara
- 7 Shavuot in Modern Prose
- Revelation Eternal by A. Alan Steinbach
- The Idea of Revelation by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The Oral Tradition by Samson Raphael Hirsch
- The Covenant at Mount Sinai by David Polish
- "Out of the Midst of the Fire" by Ahad Ha-Am
- The Source of Jewish Power by Ludwig Lewisohn
- Why I Choose to Be a Jew by Arthur A. Cohen
- The Supreme Influence of the Decalogue by Joseph H. Hertz
- The Uniqueness of the Ten Commandments by Aron Barth
- Heaven and Earth by Chaim Pearl
- Spring and the Feast of Weeks by Mendele Mocher Sefarim
- The Earth Is the Lord's and the Fulness Thereof by Morris Joseph
- Thoughts on the Feast of Weeks by Uri Zvi Greenberg
- The Equal Status of Ruth by Grace Aguilar
- The Counting of the Omer by Philip Birnbaum
- The Date of Shavuot by Louis Finkelstein
- 8 Shavuot in Art by Joseph Gutmann
- 9 Shavuot in Many Lands
- The Bringing of the Firstfruits during the Second Commonwealth by Solomon Zeitlin
- The Voice of Simeon Bar Yohai by Zev Vilnay
- Karo and Alkabetz Hold a Tikkun Shavuot in Salonika by Solomon Levi Alkabetz
- Shavuot among the Samaritans by Binyamin Tsedaka
- Shavuot as Celebrated by the Jews of Kurdistan by Erich Brauer
- Shavuot at the Tomb of the Prophet Nahum by Joseph Israel Benjamin II.
- Among the Jews of Algeria by Nahum Slouschz
- The Torah's Marriage in Gibraltar by Cecil Roth
- The Jewish Child's Initiation into School by Hayyim Schauss
- Shavuot in Eastern Europe by Hayyim Schauss
- Pentecost in Svislovitz by Shmarya Levin
- Shavuot in Vamia, Hungary by Benjamin Schreiber
- When Lilacs Bloomed in Bohemia by Vojtech Rakous
- Letters from a Desert in North Africa by Moshe Mosenson
- The Torah Is Accepted Again in Buchenwald by S. B. Unsdorfer
- Shavuot in the Soviet Union by Joshua Rothenberg
- Shavuot Services in Newport, R. I., May 28, 1773 by Ezra Stiles
- The First Confirmation in New York by Hyman B. Grinstein
- Shavuot on a Farm in Connecticut by Israel Kasovich
- The Festival in Haifa by Gershon Ahituv
- Bikkurim in Kibbutz Matzuba by Gershon Ahituv
- Tikkun Lei Shavuot at Yifat by Meir Eyali
- At the Western Wall by Yaacov Luria
- 10 Shavuot in Poetry
- Sinai by Judah Halevi
- The Law 181 Abraham ibn Ezra
- The Giving of the Law by Nina Davis Salaman
- The Ever-living Moses by A. Alan Steinbach
- The Vision of Moses by Israel M. Lask
- The Ten Commandments by Ruth F. Brin
- Where Is That Mountain? by Charles Reznikoff
- Sinai by Nelly Sachs
- Dead Men Don't Praise God by Jacob Glatstein
- Song of Adorning by Abraham Shlonsky
- 11 Shavuot in the Short Story
- Epilogue to the Book of Ruth by Hayyim Nahman Bialik
- Tikkun Lei Shavuot by David Frischman
- Another Page to the Song of Songs by Sholom Aleichem
- "We Will Do and We Will Obey" by Sholom Asch
- The Address to the Sixty by Martin Buber
- Shavuot among Brothers and Friends by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- 12 A Shavuot Sheaf
- Nomenclature
- The Privileged Day
- The Bride Sabbath
- Numerology
- King David's Yahrzeit
- The Baal Shem Tov's Yahrzeit
- The Origin of Yizkor
- The Confirmation Ceremony
- The Bene-Israel and Shavuot.
- Dialogo dos Montes
- Gathering Pomegranates and Apples
- The Martyrdom of a Righteous Proselyte
- Mob Revenge
- 13 Shavuot Wit and Humor
- 14 The Culinary Art of Shavuot
- Recipes for Shavuot by Hanna Goodman
- Blintzes
- Cheese and Spinach Pastry
- Noodle and Cheese Pudding
- Cheese Strudel
- Cheesecake
- Pineapple Cheesecake
- Burekas
- Cottage Cheese Mold
- Rogelach
- Babka
- Mount Sinai Cake
- 15 Children's Stories for Shavuot
- Shavuot by Charlotte Bronstein
- How K'tonton Wished a Wish on Shavuot Night by Sadie Rose Weilerstein
- A New Commandment by Morris Epstein
- Not a Chirp Was Heard by Levin Kipnis
- At Sinai by Deborah Pessin
- Who Will Be My Surety? by Seymour Rossel
- Play for Shavuot by Sydney Taylor
- Mountains of Blintzes by Sydney Taylor
- King Agrippa and the Firstfruits by Samuel Shihor
- Shavuot in Modern Israel by Dorothy F. Zeligs
- The Ten Commandments of Helm
- 16 Children's Poems for Shavuot
- Lifting of the Torah by Jessie E. Sampler
- The First Shavuot by Sadie Rose Weilerstein
- The Pledge of Israel by Louis I. Newman
- But God Chose Sinai by Louis I. Newman
- Heroes of the Law by Abraham Burstein
- The Ten Commandments by Ilo Orleans
- The Feast of Weeks by Philip M. Raskin
- The Midnight Wish by Myrim
- For Shavuot by Jessie E. Sampter
- My Garden's Firstfruits by Aharon Zeev
- The Radish and the Cucumber by Anda Amir
- A Shavuot Offering in Exile by Abraham Nathan Perlberg
- 17 Programs and Projects
- Bikkurim Festival
- Firstfruits Festivity
- Decoration of Home and Synagogue
- Tikkun Lei Shavuot
- Initiation Ceremony
- Lecture and Discussion Themes
- Exhibits
- Dramatizations
- Games
- Arts and Crafts
- 18 Music for Shavuot Compiled and edited by Paul Kavon
- Torat Emet
- Tanu Rabanan-Our Saintly Rabbis
- Kabbalat ha-Torah
- Torah Tzivah Lanu.
- Barukh Elohenu
- Yisrael ve-Oraita
- Yismah Mosheh
- Yismehu Adirim
- Dundai
- At Mount Sinai
- Der Oibersbter Iz Der Mechutten
- Naaleh le-Har Tziyon-Three Times Yearly
- Kumu ve-Naaleh
- Alu, Alu-Arise, Arise
- Notes
- Glossary of Shavuot Terms
- Bibliography
- General References
- Shavuot Liturgy
- Children's Stories and Descriptions of Shavuot
- Collections with Shavuot Music
- Program and Audiovisual Materials
- Program and Audiovisual Materials.
- Notes:
- "A JPS classic"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8276-1379-2
- OCLC:
- 1082211864
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