Jews and Words

Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behin...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oz, Amos
Other Authors: Oz-Salzberger, Fania
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London Yale University Press 2012, ©2012
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02390nmm a2200313 u 4500
001 EB002192062
003 EBX01000000000000001329527
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 240116 ||| eng
020 |a 978-0-300-15677-5 
050 4 |a DS113 
100 1 |a Oz, Amos 
245 0 0 |a Jews and Words  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger 
260 |a New Haven ; London  |b Yale University Press  |c 2012, ©2012 
300 |a xiv, 232 pages 
505 0 |a Continuity -- Vocal women -- Time and timelessness -- Each person has a name; or, do Jews need Judaism? 
653 |a Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc. 
653 |a Jews--Intellectual life. Jews--Origin 
653 |a Hebrew literature--History and criticism. Judaism--History 
700 1 |a Oz-Salzberger, Fania 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b GRUYMPG  |a DeGruyter MPG Collection 
500 |a A companion volume to the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization 
028 5 0 |a 10.12987/9780300156775 
776 |z 978-0-300-15647-8 
856 4 0 |u https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9780300156775  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 305.892 
520 |a Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales behind Judaism’s most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness, and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism, and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader, any reader, to join the conversation.