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Etrog - How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Etrog - How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Every year before the holiday of Sukkot, Jews all around the world
purchase an etrog-a lemon-like fruit-to participate in the holiday
ritual. In this book, David Z. Moster tracks the etrog from its
evolutionary home in Yunnan, China, to the lands of India, Iran,
and finally Israel, where it became integral to the Jewish
celebration of Sukkot during the Second Temple period. Moster
explains what Sukkot was like before and after the arrival of the
etrog, and why the etrog's identification as the "choice tree
fruit" of Leviticus 23:40 was by no means predetermined. He also
demonstrates that once the fruit became associated with the holiday
of Sukkot, it began to appear everywhere in Jewish art during the
Roman and Byzantine periods, and eventually became a symbol for all
the fruits of the land, and perhaps even the Jewish people as a
whole.
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