Never has such a complete and accurate guide to running a traditional Jewish household been so accessible and sympathetic to the uninitiated. Blu Greenberg at once guides nontraditional Jews who are looking to become more observant and allows traditional Jews to fine-tune the details of their own observant home lives.
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Never has such a complete and accurate guide to running a traditional Jewish household been so accessible and sympathetic to the uninitiated. Blu Greenberg at once guides nontraditional Jews who are looking to become more observant and allows traditional Jews to fine-tune the details of their own observant home lives.
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First Edition, first printing with full number line in near fine/ very good condition. The pages are clean and crisp, in like new condition, with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket has a tiny bit of shelf wear, but otherwise the book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
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Simon Metz (Jacket photograph) Good in Good jacket. 525, [5] pages. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: [hebrew letters] June, 1983. To Judy & David, In admiration and in friendship, Blu (* You are right about the missing chapter. ) [Presumed to refer to a chapter that had not been written--text appears complete]. Text is mostly in English, with some Hebrew. Some footnotes. Includes Acknowledgments, Preface, Afterword, Recipes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography for a Home Library, and Index. Also includes chapters on The Jewish Way, Special Stages of Life, and Celebration and Remembering. The special stages of Jewish life--from birth to parenthood to death and mourning--are examined in detail, as are the special holidays, celebrations and remembrances. Through a mixture of the contemporary and the traditional, this book makes for a fascinating, personal insight into Judaism. Tens of thousands of copies have found their way into homes and libraries. A very popular selection for prize and presentations. This is the standard work on Judaism and how to live it. Jewish and other religious leaders, critics and readers everywhere have embraced Blu Greenberg's guide to understanding, accepting and incorporating the ways of Orthodox Judaism into the contemporary household of the 80s. Blu Greenberg (born January 21, 1936, in Seattle, with the name Bluma Genauer, later legally changing her first name to Blu) is an American writer specializing in modern Judaism and women's issues. Her most noted books are On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition (1981), and Black Bread: Poems, After the Holocaust (1994). She has a B.A. in political science from Brooklyn College, an MA in clinical psychology from the City University of New York, and an MS in Jewish history from Yeshiva University. Greenberg was active in the movement to bridge Judaism and feminism. In February 1973, she gave the opening address at the first National Jewish Women's Conference, which was held in New York City. In 1997 and 1998, she chaired the first and second International Conference on Feminism and Orthodoxy, and she is the founder and the first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She has also tried to build bridges between women of different faiths by helping to set up "Women of Faith", and by her involvement in the "Dialogue Project", which seeks to unite Jewish and Palestinian women. She has lectured at universities and to Jewish communities in the United States and elsewhere. She also created the famous saying, "Where there's a rabbinic will, there's a halakhic way." She received the Woman Who Made A Difference award on January 26, 2000, from the American Jewish Congress Commission for Women's Equality during a ceremony at the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem.
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This book will give you all of the information that you need to know about "How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household." Written in a warm and readable style, the book shares many delightful examples from the author's own Orthodox family life. Whether you never learned all of these things as you grew up Jewish or are a new convert to the Jewish faith, you will come away from reading this book with a very comprehensive knowledge of authentic Jewish home life. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
crochetmaven
Mar 18, 2010
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Good, basic information. Mostly from the Orthodox perspective. Very readable, you can go cover-to-cover or use it as a topical reference.