The Shavuot Anthology (The JPS Holiday Anthologies)

Synopsis

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 Medievial 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. Edited By Philip Goodman. A Jps Classic--front Cover. Music For Shavuot, Compiled And Edited By Paul Kavon: P. [323]-337. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 353-369).