The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure

Stan Mack

1999

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Text about the Jewish god, above two drawings of someone on a ladder building a large beaked sculpture, next to several people.

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Stan Mack

b. 1930

Stan Mack is a journalist and cartoonist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Providence. His comic Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies ran in the Village Voice for twenty years. Formerly the art director of the New York Times Magazine, Mack is the author of several young adult nonfiction books and children’s picture books.

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What Is the Teaching of Kabbalah and Hasidism If Not Expansion?

What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…

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Painting of two men in winter clothes holding a lantern and walking through the snow, with two small buildings behind them.

Leaving Cheder

Adam Muszka likely painted this scene from memory. As a child, he had attended cheder, a traditional Jewish elementary school, in his native Piotrków Trybunalski, a Polish town of about 51,000…

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The Cadi and the Jewish Merchant

Toward the end of the reign of Moulay Hassan, there was a cadi whose avarice was so great that he was likened to a tomb, for the tomb, ever receiving, never gives anything back. The cadi accepted…

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The Story of the Jews: A 4,000-Year Adventure

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