Displaying 1 of 1 1988 Format: Book Author: Wouk, Herman, 1915-2019. Title: This is my God : the Jewish way of life / Herman Wouk. Publisher, Date: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., ©1988. Description: xiv, 345 pages ; 22 cm. Summary: 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. Series: Back Bay book Back Bay book. Subjects: Judaism. Notes: First pub. in 1959. Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334). Contents: 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. LCCN: 87003245 ISBN: 0316955078 9780316955072 0316955140 9780316955140 Other Number: 15697770 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 42861 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: 296 Wouk Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1