1 • THE LANGUAGE OF FAITH
A selection from the most
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printed on facing pages.
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2 • YITZHAK F. BAER: GALUT
A brilliant historical essay ex–
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3 ·FROM THE LAND OF SHEBA
A collection of the folklore,
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medieval pogrom.
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The story of
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6 • ELIAS BICKERMAN: THE MACCABEES
A dramatic account
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·FRANZ KAFKA: PARABLES
Highly original short pieces de–
veloping some of the themes of world mythology in terms of
Kafka's own imagination and humor. German and English on
facing pages.
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MARTIN BUBER: TEN RUNGS
HASIDIC SAYINGS.
A repre–
sentative collection of aphorisms, penetrating into the central
meaning of the mystical movement that swept East European
Jewry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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