Jewish literacy

About Jewish literacy

Joseph Telushkin’s Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History provides an expansive examination of Jewish life, faith, and historical development. This 768-page volume is structured into hundreds of concise entries, each focusing on a specific person, event, concept, or law central to the Jewish experience. The work is organized chronologically and thematically, beginning with the biblical era and progressing through the development of the Talmud, the Middle Ages, and the modern period.

The text covers a wide range of subjects, including the origins of the Jewish people, the significance of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel. It also details the fundamental tenets of Jewish belief, such as the concept of monotheism, the importance of the