Jews and Words
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780300156775 (0300156774)
Publish date: November 20th 2012
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
According to Jewish tradition, creation begins with words, as God speaks the universe into being in the first chapter of Genesis. In their book Jews and Words, novelist and essayist Amos Oz and his daughter, historian Fania Oz-Salzburger, assert that it is words that form the true chain linking Jews...