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1 online resource (xxxiv, 369 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
The JPS holiday anthologies |
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JPS holiday anthologies
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| Contents |
I. Shavuot in the Bible -- The feast of the harvest -- Giving of our Torah -- Scroll of Ruth -- 2. Shavuot in postbiblical writings -- Moses receives the tablets of the law / Book of Jubilees -- Moses delivers the Decalogue / Flavius Josephus -- Why the Torah was given in the desert / Philo of Alexandria -- Why the laws are addressed to every individual / Philo of Alexandria -- Patriarchs celebrate Shavuot / Book of Jubilees -- Tobit's feast turned into mourning / Tobit -- Pentecost in wartime / Flavius Josephus -- Maccabean warriors observe the feast of weeks / II Maccabees -- 3. Shavuot in Talmud and Midrash -- Mountain chosen for the revelation -- When the Torah was given -- Nations refuse the Torah -- Public presentation of the Torah -- Moses ascends on high to receive the law -- Lord speaks to the people -- Children become the sureties -- Israel accepts the Torah -- Moses breaks the tablets of the law -- Ten commandments -- 613 commandments -- Transmission of the oral law -- Oral law -- Bringing of the firstfruits -- Celebration of Shavuot -- 4. Shavuot in medieval Jewish literature -- Belief in divine providence / Judah Halevi -- Strength comes through belief / Moses Maimonides -- Moses experiences the revelation / Moses Maimonides -- Torah is given in public / Joseph Albo -- Two tablets of the law / Joseph Albo -- Decalogue established the world / Zohar -- Bride and the bridegroom / Zohar -- One day only for the feast of weeks / Zohar -- Anniversary of the revelation / Moses Maimonides -- 5. Laws and customs of Shavuot -- Period of Shavuot -- Night of Shavuot -- Scriptural readings -- Floral decorations -- 6. Liturgy of Shavuot -- I am, thou didst proclaim / Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun -- Loud rang the voice / Eleazar Kalir -- Before the words of God are read / Meir ben Isaac Nehorai -- Introduction to Azharot / David ben Elezar Bekuda -- Precepts he gave his folk / Elijah ben Manahem ha-Zaken -- Thine own sweet words / Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun -- Myriad angels' song / Jacob ben Meir -- Marriage certificate for Shavuot / Israel Najara -- 7. Shavuot in modern prose -- Revelation eternal / A. Alan Steinbach -- Idea of revelation / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Oral tradition / Samson Raphael Hirsch -- The covenant at Mount Sinai / David Polish -- "Out of the midst of the fire" / Ahad Ha-Am -- The source of Jewish power / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Why I choose to be a Jew / Arthur A. Cohen |
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Supreme influence of the Ten Commandments / Aron barth -- Heaven and Earth / Chaim Pearl -- Spring and the feast of weeks / Mendele Mocher Sefarim -- "The Earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof" / Morris Joseph -- Thoughts on the feast of weeks / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- The equal status of Ruth / Grace Aguilar -- The counting of the Omer / Philip Birnbaum -- The date of Shavuot / Louis Finkelstein -- 8. Shavuot in art / Joseph Gutmann -- 9. Shavuot in many lands -- The bringing of the firstfruits during the second commonwealth / Solomon Zeitlin -- The voice of Simeon bar Yohai / Zev Vilnay -- Karo and Alkabetz hold a Tikkun Shavuot in Salonika / Solomon Levi Alkabetz -- Shavuot as celebrated by the Jews of Kurdistan / Erich Brauer -- Shavuot at the tomb of the prophet Nahum / Joseph Israel Benjamin II -- Among the Jews of Algeria / Nahum Slouschz -- The Torah's marriage in Gibraltar / Cecil Roth -- The Jewish child's initiation into school / Hayyim Schauss -- Shavuot in Eastern Europe / Hayyim Schauss -- Pentecost in Svilovitz / Shmarya Levin -- Shavuot in Vamia, Hungary / Benjamin Schreiber -- When lilacs bllomed in Bohemia / Vojtech Rakous -- Letters from a desert in North Africa / Moshe Mosenson -- The Torah is accepted again in Buchenwald / S.B. Unsdorfer -- Shavuot in the Soviet Union / Joshua Rothenberg -- Shavuot services in Newport, R.I., May 28, 1773 / Ezra Stiles -- The first confirmation in New York / Hyman B. Grinstein -- Shavuot on a farm in Connecticut / ISsrael Kasovich -- The festival in Haifa / Gershon Ahituv -- Bikkurim in kibbutz matzuba / Gershon Ahituv -- Tikkun lel Shavuot at Yifat / Meir Eyali -- At the western wall / Yaacov Luria -- 10. Shavuot in poetry -- Sinai / Judah Halevi -- The law / Abraham ibn Ezra -- The giving of the law / Nina Davis Salaman -- The ever-living Moses / A. Alan Steinbach -- The vision of Moses / Israel M. Lask -- The ten commandments / Ruth F. Brin -- Where is that mountain? / Charles Reznikoff -- Sinai / Nelly Sachs -- Dead men don't praise God / Jacob Glatstein -- Song of adorning / Abraham Shlonsky -- 11. Shavuot in the short story -- Epilogue to the book of Ruth / Hayyim Nahman Bialik -- Tikkun lel Shavuot / David Frischman -- Another page to the Song of Songs / Sholom Aleichem -- "We will do and we will obey" / Sholom Asch -- The address to the sixty / Martin Buber -- Shavuot among brothers and friends / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- 12. A Shavuot sheaf -- Nomenclature -- The privileged day -- The bride Sabbath -- Numerology -- King David'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 |
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14. Culinary art of Shavuot -- Recipes for Shavuot / 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 / Charlotte Bronstein -- How K'tonton wished a wish on Shavuot night / Sadie Rose Weilerstein -- A new commandment / Morris Epstein -- Not a chirp was heard / Levin Kepnis -- At Sinai / Deborah Pessin -- Who will be my surety? / Seymour Rossel -- Play for Shavuot / Sydney Taylor -- Mountains of Blintzes / Sydney Taylor -- King Agrippa and the firstsfruits / Samuel Shihor -- Shavuot in modern Israel / Dorothy F. Zeligs -- The ten commandments of Helm -- 16. Children's poems for Shavuot -- Lifting of the Torah / Jessie E. Sampter -- First Shavuot / Sade Rose Weilerstein -- Pledge of Israel / Louis I. Newman -- But God chose Sinai / Louis I. Newman -- Heroes of the law / Abraham Burnstein -- The ten commandments / Ilo Orleans -- Feast of weeks / Philip M. Raskin -- Midnight wish / Myrim -- For Shavuot / Jessie E. Sampter -- My garden's firstfruits / Aharon Zeev -- Radish and the cucumber / Anda Amir -- A Shavuot offering in exile / Abraham Nathan Perlberg -- 17. Programs and projects -- Bikkurim festival -- Firstfruits festivity -- Decoration of home and synagogue -- Tikkun lel Shavuot -- Initiation ceremony -- Lecture and discussion themes -- Exhibits -- Dramatizations -- Games -- Arts and crafts -- 18. Music for Shavuot / 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 Oibershter iz der Mechutten -- Naaleh le-har Tziyon: three times yearly -- Kumu ve-Naaleh -- Alu, alu: arise, arise |
| 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 |
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"A JPS classic"--Cover |
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"Music for Shavuot, compiled and edited by Paul Kavon": pages [323]-337 |
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"First Nebraska paperback printing: 2018"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shavuot.
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Shavuot -- Literary collections
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Shavuot.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Shavuot
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodman, Philip, 1911-2016, editor
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Jewish Publication Society, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9780827613799 |
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0827613792 |
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