4155X2 First Edition. Doubleday, Garden City: 1985. 246 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. What does it mean to be Jewish? Is it a nationality, a common language, religion, culture, ideology, or tradition? All of these subjects and more are discussed. Shenker explores ancient sacred texts, from Torah to Talmud; argues with prominent Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz; discusses art and assimilation with modern renaissance man Dr. Jonathon Miller; interviews writer Aharon Appelfeld and movingly bears witness to the Holocaust; talks to or about such Jewish writers and artists as Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Raphael Soyer, and Chaim Gross; and offers fascinating detours into ghettos, kibbutzim, and the still flourishing world of Torah scribes, the Glasgow Jewish Lads Brigade, Yiddish show biz. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0385158114 $7.50USD
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