Slight discoloration to top edge of cover Sun bleached spine on book jacket Norman F. Cantor Castle Books, 1999 - Jews - 488 pages Containing selections from more than 100 written texts as well as more than 50 illustrations - this collection includes short stories, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs and other first-person accounts. each of the Book's ten parts is devoted to a specific theme in jewish culture and experience: living on the edge, growing up, maturing and dying, divine intoxication, victims and martyrs, hoping and coping, women, striking back, icons and alternative intimations.