Descrição
The Walled Garden – The Saga of Jewish Family Life and Tradition: Throughout the ages and in different lands, its traditions, manners, morals, idiosyncracies, secrets, and ceremonies have helped to preserve the faith and keep the people together. This beaturifully ilustrated book draws on a rich fund of experiences, from the brit mila, with wich the male child is initiates into the Covenant of Abraham, to the funeral, at which the departed are gathered unto their fathers. It outlines the cycle of the Jewish home, past and present, incorporating everything from evocative descriptions of Jewish cooking and a probing look ate the myth of “Jewish puritanism”. Livro usado, em bom estado de conservação. Capa dura. Rica e amplamente ilustrado. Em inglês.
