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 Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology offers new insight intothe Festival of Ingathering, celebrating the harvest in the land of our ancestors, and the Festival of Rejoicing in the Law, marking the new cycle of public Torah readings, by elucidating the two festivals' background, historical development, and spiritual truths for Jews and humankind. Mining the Bible, postbiblical literature, Talmud, midrashim, prayers with commentaries, and Hasidic tales, the compendium also showcases humor, art, food, song, dance, essays, stories, and poems-including works by Chaim Weizmann, Elie Wiesel, Herman Wouk, S. Y. Agnon, Sholom Aleichem, H. N. Bialik, and Solomon Schechter-truly a rich harvest for the "Season of Our Rejoicing."
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 Sukkot and Simhat Torah Anthology offers new insight intothe Festival of Ingathering, celebrating the harvest in the land of our ancestors, and the Festival of Rejoicing in the Law, marking the new cycle of public Torah readings, by elucidating the two festivals' background, historical development, and spiritual truths for Jews and humankind. Mining the Bible, postbiblical literature, Talmud, midrashim, prayers with commentaries, and Hasidic tales, the compendium also showcases humor, art, food, song, dance, essays, stories, and poems-including works by Chaim Weizmann, Elie Wiesel, Herman Wouk, S. Y. Agnon, Sholom Aleichem, H. N. Bialik, and Solomon Schechter-truly a rich harvest for the "Season of Our Rejoicing."
List of Illustrations
A Note from the Publisher
Preface
Acknowledgments
Philip Goodman (1911–2006) was a rabbi and served as
director of the Jewish education and Jewish center division for the
Jewish Welfare Board, executive secretary of the Jewish Book
Council, and executive secretary of the American Jewish
Historical Society. He is the author or editor of many books,
including seven volumes in the JPS Holiday Anthologies series.
“Throughout my long career as a rabbi, the JPS holiday anthologies
have been an essential resource. All the core background is in one
place. If I need a holiday story, the anthologies contain a wide
range of choices. And sections on celebrations worldwide provide
new approaches to festivals.”—Rabbi Steven Bob, author of Jonah and
the Meaning of Our Lives
“This reissue is good news! I read this rich, varied, and classic
series with pleasure and collected the volumes avidly when they
first appeared.”—Rabbi Reuven Hammer, author of Akiva: Life,
Legend, Legacy
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