This text provides a conceptual framework for the study of Judaism. The author defines and interprets the Jewish experience by considering it as an "ecosystem": an interrelationship between a religious way of viewing life and the world, and the historical and social situation of the people who view the world and live life in accord with the teachings of their religion. Within this framework, material on holidays, beliefs and practices is presented as expressing, in the author's worlds, "a single and whole conception of the world, of the human being, of the character of humanity, and of the supernatural meaning of the Jewish people".
- ISBN10 0534169384
- ISBN13 9780534169381
- Publish Date 11 August 1992 (first published December 1974)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 5th Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English