A celebrated novelist and an acclaimed historian of ideas, father
and daughter, unravel the chain of words at the core of Jewish
life, history, and culture Why are words so important to so many
Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the
gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of
Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship,
conversation and argument, father and daughter tell the tales
behind Judaism's most enduring names, adages, disputes, texts, and
quips. These words, they argue, compose the chain connecting
Abraham with the Jews of every subsequent generation. Framing the
discussion within such topics as continuity, women, timelessness,
and individualism, Oz and Oz-Salzberger deftly engage Jewish
personalities across the ages, from the unnamed, possibly female
author of the Song of Songs through obscure Talmudists to
contemporary writers. They suggest that Jewish continuity, even
Jewish uniqueness, depends not on central places, monuments, heroic
personalities, or rituals but rather on written words and an
ongoing debate between the generations. Full of learning, lyricism,
and humor, Jews and Words offers an extraordinary tour of the words
at the heart of Jewish culture and extends a hand to the reader,
any reader, to join the conversation.
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