The Shavuot anthology / edited by Philip Goodman.

"A JPS classic"--Cover

"Music for Shavuot, compiled and edited by Paul Kavon": pages [323]-337

"First Nebraska paperback printing: 2018"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369).

I. Shavuot in the Bible -- The feast of the harvest -- Giving of our Torah -- Scroll of Ruth -- 2. Shavuot in postbiblical writings -- Moses receives the tablets of the law / Book of Jubilees -- Moses delivers the Decalogue / Flavius Josephus -- Why the Torah was given in the desert / Philo of Alexandria -- Why the laws are addressed to every individual / Philo of Alexandria -- Patriarchs celebrate Shavuot / Book of Jubilees -- Tobit's feast turned into mourning / Tobit -- Pentecost in wartime / Flavius Josephus -- Maccabean warriors observe the feast of weeks / II Maccabees -- 3. Shavuot in Talmud and Midrash -- Mountain chosen for the revelation -- When the Torah was given -- Nations refuse the Torah -- Public presentation of the Torah -- Moses ascends on high to receive the law -- Lord speaks to the people -- Children become the sureties -- Israel accepts the Torah -- Moses breaks the tablets of the law -- Ten commandments -- 613 commandments -- Transmission of the oral law -- Oral law -- Bringing of the firstfruits -- Celebration of Shavuot -- 4. Shavuot in medieval Jewish literature -- Belief in divine providence / Judah Halevi -- Strength comes through belief / Moses Maimonides -- Moses experiences the revelation / Moses Maimonides -- Torah is given in public / Joseph Albo -- Two tablets of the law / Joseph Albo -- Decalogue established the world / Zohar -- Bride and the bridegroom / Zohar -- One day only for the feast of weeks / Zohar -- Anniversary of the revelation / Moses Maimonides -- 5. Laws and customs of Shavuot -- Period of Shavuot -- Night of Shavuot -- Scriptural readings -- Floral decorations -- 6. Liturgy of Shavuot -- I am, thou didst proclaim / Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun -- Loud rang the voice / Eleazar Kalir -- Before the words of God are read / Meir ben Isaac Nehorai -- Introduction to Azharot / David ben Elezar Bekuda -- Precepts he gave his folk / Elijah ben Manahem ha-Zaken -- Thine own sweet words / Simeon ben Isaac ben Abun -- Myriad angels' song / Jacob ben Meir -- Marriage certificate for Shavuot / Israel Najara -- 7. Shavuot in modern prose -- Revelation eternal / A. Alan Steinbach -- Idea of revelation / Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Oral tradition / Samson Raphael Hirsch -- The covenant at Mount Sinai / David Polish -- "Out of the midst of the fire" / Ahad Ha-Am -- The source of Jewish power / Ludwig Lewisohn -- Why I choose to be a Jew / Arthur A. Cohen

Supreme influence of the Ten Commandments / Aron barth -- Heaven and Earth / Chaim Pearl -- Spring and the feast of weeks / Mendele Mocher Sefarim -- "The Earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof" / Morris Joseph -- Thoughts on the feast of weeks / Uri Zvi Greenberg -- The equal status of Ruth / Grace Aguilar -- The counting of the Omer / Philip Birnbaum -- The date of Shavuot / Louis Finkelstein -- 8. Shavuot in art / Joseph Gutmann -- 9. Shavuot in many lands -- The bringing of the firstfruits during the second commonwealth / Solomon Zeitlin -- The voice of Simeon bar Yohai / Zev Vilnay -- Karo and Alkabetz hold a Tikkun Shavuot in Salonika / Solomon Levi Alkabetz -- Shavuot as celebrated by the Jews of Kurdistan / Erich Brauer -- Shavuot at the tomb of the prophet Nahum / Joseph Israel Benjamin II -- Among the Jews of Algeria / Nahum Slouschz -- The Torah's marriage in Gibraltar / Cecil Roth -- The Jewish child's initiation into school / Hayyim Schauss -- Shavuot in Eastern Europe / Hayyim Schauss -- Pentecost in Svilovitz / Shmarya Levin -- Shavuot in Vamia, Hungary / Benjamin Schreiber -- When lilacs bllomed in Bohemia / Vojtech Rakous -- Letters from a desert in North Africa / Moshe Mosenson -- The Torah is accepted again in Buchenwald / S.B. Unsdorfer -- Shavuot in the Soviet Union / Joshua Rothenberg -- Shavuot services in Newport, R.I., May 28, 1773 / Ezra Stiles -- The first confirmation in New York / Hyman B. Grinstein -- Shavuot on a farm in Connecticut / ISsrael Kasovich -- The festival in Haifa / Gershon Ahituv -- Bikkurim in kibbutz matzuba / Gershon Ahituv -- Tikkun lel Shavuot at Yifat / Meir Eyali -- At the western wall / Yaacov Luria -- 10. Shavuot in poetry -- Sinai / Judah Halevi -- The law / Abraham ibn Ezra -- The giving of the law / Nina Davis Salaman -- The ever-living Moses / A. Alan Steinbach -- The vision of Moses / Israel M. Lask -- The ten commandments / Ruth F. Brin -- Where is that mountain? / Charles Reznikoff -- Sinai / Nelly Sachs -- Dead men don't praise God / Jacob Glatstein -- Song of adorning / Abraham Shlonsky -- 11. Shavuot in the short story -- Epilogue to the book of Ruth / Hayyim Nahman Bialik -- Tikkun lel Shavuot / David Frischman -- Another page to the Song of Songs / Sholom Aleichem -- "We will do and we will obey" / Sholom Asch -- The address to the sixty / Martin Buber -- Shavuot among brothers and friends / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- 12. A Shavuot sheaf -- Nomenclature -- The privileged day -- The bride Sabbath -- Numerology -- King David's yahrzeit -- The origin of yizkor -- The confirmation ceremony -- The bene-Israel and Shavuot -- Dialogo dos montes -- Gathering pomegranates and apples -- The martyrdom of a righteous proselyte -- Mob revenge -- 13. Shavuot wit and humor

14. Culinary art of Shavuot -- Recipes for Shavuot / Hanna Goodman -- Blintzes -- Cheese and spinach pastry -- Noodle and cheese pudding -- Cheese strudel -- Cheesecake -- Pineapple cheesecake -- Burekas -- Cottage cheese mold -- Rogelach -- Babka -- Mount Sinai cake -- 15. Children's stories for Shavuot -- Shavuot / Charlotte Bronstein -- How K'tonton wished a wish on Shavuot night / Sadie Rose Weilerstein -- A new commandment / Morris Epstein -- Not a chirp was heard / Levin Kepnis -- At Sinai / Deborah Pessin -- Who will be my surety? / Seymour Rossel -- Play for Shavuot / Sydney Taylor -- Mountains of Blintzes / Sydney Taylor -- King Agrippa and the firstsfruits / Samuel Shihor -- Shavuot in modern Israel / Dorothy F. Zeligs -- The ten commandments of Helm -- 16. Children's poems for Shavuot -- Lifting of the Torah / Jessie E. Sampter -- First Shavuot / Sade Rose Weilerstein -- Pledge of Israel / Louis I. Newman -- But God chose Sinai / Louis I. Newman -- Heroes of the law / Abraham Burnstein -- The ten commandments / Ilo Orleans -- Feast of weeks / Philip M. Raskin -- Midnight wish / Myrim -- For Shavuot / Jessie E. Sampter -- My garden's firstfruits / Aharon Zeev -- Radish and the cucumber / Anda Amir -- A Shavuot offering in exile / Abraham Nathan Perlberg -- 17. Programs and projects -- Bikkurim festival -- Firstfruits festivity -- Decoration of home and synagogue -- Tikkun lel Shavuot -- Initiation ceremony -- Lecture and discussion themes -- Exhibits -- Dramatizations -- Games -- Arts and crafts -- 18. Music for Shavuot / edited by Paul Kavon -- Torat Emet -- Tanu Rabanan: our saintly Rabbis -- Kabbalat ha Torah -- Torah Tzivah Lanu -- Barukh Elohenu -- Yisrael ve-Oraita -- Yismah Mosheh -- Yismehu Adirim -- Dundai -- At Mount Sinai -- Der Oibershter iz der Mechutten -- Naaleh le-har Tziyon: three times yearly -- Kumu ve-Naaleh -- Alu, alu: arise, arise.

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