A Treasury of Jewish quotations (Art Ebook) pdf

Aronson | 1996 | Pdf | Eng | 624 pag | ISBN10 0876688946 | 83.2 MB

Edited by Joseph L. Baron

18,000 Quotations
1,000 Subjects
2,500 Years of Jewish literature
10,000 quotes translated for the first time into English


The quotations contained in this monumental volume consist of aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, and comments of Jewish authorship or on Jewish themes. Here is a rich reasury compiled from over 2,500 years of Jewish writings—from the Talmud, the Mishna, the Zohar, and the Bible, through excerpts from Rashi, Maimonides, the Baal Shem Tbv, as well as Spinoza, Disraeli, Herzl, Freud, Einstein, and many others.

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Queer, how helpless a man becomes
In autumn at the window, at
night when it rains.

Esselin, "Harbst Dermont." Unter der
Last, 1936, p. 107