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Wouk, Herman, 1915-2019.

This is my God : the Jewish way of life / Herman Wouk.

Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., ©1988.

xiv, 345 pages ; 22 cm.

Offers an explanation of orthodox Judaism for the non-scholar, discussing the survival of the Jews, the faith, the sabbath, festivals, holy days, prayers and the synagogue, symbols, love and marriage, death, and other topics.

Back Bay book

Back Bay book.

Judaism.

First pub. in 1959.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334).

Remarkable survival of the Jews: Who are we? -- Prevalence of symbols -- Faith: We cannot study all of it -- Sabbath -- Nature festivals -- High holy days -- Minor holy days -- Prayers, synagogue, and the worshippers -- Symbols of food, clothing, an shelter -- Birth and beginnings: men and women -- Love and marriage: and certain elegant variations -- Death -- Law: Where does authority live? -- Torah -- Talmud -- Jewish common law -- From the Talmud to the present -- Present: What the enlightenment was -- Orthodoxy -- Dissent -- Israel -- Epilogue -- Afterword, 1969, on the Six-Day War -- Postscript, 1987, on Israel at forty.

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