Recounts the history and rituals of ten Jewish holidays, including appropriate games, recipes, and songs.

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Background information on every stage of life; covers every Jewish life cycle event from birth to death; insights from Jewish tradition; hundreds of creative ac

The result for the history of Judaism of a documentary reading of the Rabbinic canonical sources illustrates the working of that hypothesis. It is the first maj