Links in the Chain: Shapers of the Jewish Tradition

by Naomi Pasachoff

"Judaism, or that which has united the successive generations of Jews into one people, is not only a religion; it is a dynamic religious civilization."--Mordecai Menachem Kaplan, from Questions Jews Ask (1956)
In assessing what their Jewish identities mean to them, Jews today sometimes describe themselves as links in a chain of tradition that stretches back to biblical times. In this collection of biographies of Jewish thinkers from ancient times...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195099397
• ISBN13: 9780195099393
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12