Classics of Jewish Literature

The editors have searched the vast wealthof Jewish literature from Biblical times tothe present for this selection of the finestwritings from the worlds of essay, fiction,poetry, drama, the Bible, and non-fiction.included are several new translations fromHebrew, Yiddish, and German. Each entryhas its own introduction, placing theauthors and the works in socio-historicalperspective, often revealing little knowninformation about them.Here is an important contribution to theJewish experience, an illumiation and interpretation of the best of the best, fromThe Book of Job to Anne Frank, fromJosephus to Albert Einstein, from BaruchSpinoza to Martin Buber, from yehudaHalevi to Emma Lazarus.