Song of the Whitewasher. An Anthology of Works on Jewish Wisdom and Modern Hebrew Literary Heritage

      Аннотация: This eloquent collection of short stories and Jewish proverbs, folktales and essays reminds readers that a single life is fleeting and small, and yet each individual is connected to something larger and more constant than themselves. With simplicity and clarity, these stories — many of them centuries old — manage to bridge the distance between past and present, between individual virtues and the strength of a community. Like any good book, Hakak’s does not provide answers. Instead, it asks the right questions — the same questions our ancestors asked themselves, and the ones our children’s children will ask themselves, too. (Alizah Salario)

Ключевые слова: Beauty, Bible, folktales, King, Motherhood, proverbs, sages, stories, unity, Song of Songs, Agnon, Shofman, anthology, Jewish, modern Hebrew literature, Jewish wisdom, mixed anthology