Judaism Reading List: Books for Jewish Children (Pt. XIII)

From: faigin@pacificnet.net (Daniel Faigin) Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.jewish.parenting,news.answers,soc.answers Subject: Judaism Reading List: Books for Jewish Children (Pt. XIII) Supersedes: <j.r.l.kids_861819031@shell> Followup-To: poster Date: 23 May 1997 11:07:37 -0700 Organization: Occasionally Expires: 6 Jul 1997 18:07:34 GMT Message-ID: <j.r.l.kids_864410854@shell> Archive-name: judaism/reading-lists/childrens Soc-culture-jewish-archive-name: reading.childrens Posting-Frequency: Monthly Selected Sources for Additional Reading on Judaism Books for Jewish Children [Last Change: $Date: 1995/06/27 20:14:39 $ $Revision: 1.2 $] [Last Post: Mon Jun 12 11:07:11 1995] This message is intended to provide recommendations to the readers of soc.culture.jewish of books suitable for use by children. In general, throughout the reading lists, North American (US/Canada) terms are used to refer to the movements of Judaism. Outside of North American, Reform is Progressive or Liberal Judaism; Conservative is Reform or Masorti, and Orthodoxy is often just "Judaism". Even with this, there are differences in practice, position, and ritual between US/Canada Reform and other progressive/liberal movements (such as UK Progressive/ Liberal), and between US/Canada Conservative and the conservative/Masorti movement elsewhere. Where appropriate, these differences will be highlighted. Note that Wendy Betts also maintains a bibliography of Jewish books at <http://www.armory.com/~web/jbooks.html>. Reproduction of this posting for commercial use is subject to restriction. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ORGANIZATION This reading list is organized as follows: * Introduction to this Reading List This part of the reading list is currently under construction. This part of the reading list is currently under construction. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Credits The inspiration for this part of the reading list came from Marjorie Peskin, who collected and compiled the initial set of recommendations. Daniel Faigin supported Marjorie in citation research and formatting the list as part of the s.c.j FAQ. Thanks also go to Risa Krohn at Hakol LaMoreh for her help, guidance, and support she provided to Marjorie during the compilation of this list. Risa spent hours and hours with Marjorie pulling stuff off shelves, and she provided Marjorie with lists of available materials. Hakol LaMoreh is the the Educational Department of the Israel Bookshop, 410 Harvard Street, Brookline MA 02148. Hakol LaMoreh provides educational games, videos, books, posters, puzzles, and teaching materials for Jewish Dayschools, Preschools, Hebrew Schools, and Sunday Schools throughout the United States. Those interested further in books on this list or in other books for Jewish Children may wish to contact Hakol LaMoreh. Additional contributions to this list have been made by TBD. As usual, suggestions for additions or deletions are welcome, as are _brief_ annotations for any entry. ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Archival and Credits Anonymous FTP: All portions of the FAQ and of the reading lists are archived on shamash.org [192.77.173.13] and on rtfm.mit.edu, and are available for anonymous FTP. On shamash.org, the parts of the FAQ are stored in the israel/lists/scj-faq/FAQ directory. On rtfm.mit.edu, these FAQs are stored in the pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/FAQ directory. Note that the archived versions of the FAQ are the posted versions; that is, they are each one large ASCII file. The following is the mapping of reading lists to files: general Introduction and General. Includes book sources, starting points for beginners, starting points for non-Jewish readers, General Judaism, General Jewish Thought, General Jewish History, Noachide Laws, Torah and Talmud, Mishnah and Talmud, Torah and Talmudic Commentary, Midrash, Halachic Codes, Becoming An Observant Jew, Women and Judaism, and Science and Judaism. traditional Traditional Liturgy, Practice, Lifestyle, Holidays. Includes Traditional Liturgy; Traditional Philosophy and Ethics; Prayer; Traditional Practice; The Household; Life, Death, and In-Between; and The Cycle Of Holidays. mysticism Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Messianism. Includes Academic and Religious treatments of Kabbalah, Sprituality, and the Jewish notion of the Messiah. reform Reform/Progressive Judaism conservative Conservative Judaism reconstructionist Reconstructionist Judaism humanistic Humanistic Judaism (Society for Humanistic Judaism) chasidism Chassidism. Includes general information on historical chassidism, as well as specific information on Lubavitch (Chabad), Satmar, Breslaw (Breslov), and other approaches. zionism Zionism. Includes Zionism and The Development Of Israel, The Founders, Zionistic Movements, and Judaism in Israel. antisemitism Antisemitism. Includes sections on Antisemitism, What Led to The Holocaust, Medieval Oppression, Antisemitism Today (Including Dealing with Hate Groups), Judaism and Christianity, and Judaism, Freemasonry and other rumors. intermarriage Intermarriage. Includes sections on "So You're Considering Intermarriage?", The Traditional Viewpoint, Conversion, and Coping With Life As An Intermarried. periodicals Periodicals. Includes Topical General Interest Periodicals, General Interest Periodicals focused on Tradition and Home, General Interest Periodicals focused on Jewish Scholarship, Other General Interest Periodicals, Publications Targeted For Specific Movements, Rabbinic Journals, and Local Publications. childrens Books for Jewish Children. Includes. The following is the mapping of sections of the Frequently Asked Questions to files: 01-FAQ-intro Section 1: Network and Soc.Culture.Jewish Information 02-Who-We-Are Section 2: Who We Are 03-Torah-Halacha Section 3: Torah Section 4: Halachic Authority 04-Observance Section 5: Jewish Holidays Section 6: Jewish Dietary Law and Kashrut Section 7: Sabbath and Holiday Observance Section 8: Woman and Marriage 05-Worship Section 9: Jewish Worship Section 10: Conversion, Intermarriage, and "Who is a Jew? Section 11: Miscellaneous Practice Questions 06-Jewish-Thought Section 12: Jewish Thought 07-Jews-As-Nation Section 13: Jews as a Nation 08-Israel Section 14: Jews and Israel 09-Antisemitism Section 15: Churban Europa (The Holocaust) Section 16: Antisemitism and Rumors about Jews Section 17: Countering Missionaries 10-Reform Section 18: Reform/Progressive Judaism 11-Miscellaneous Section 19: Miscellaneous Section 20: References and Getting Connected 12-Kids Section 21: Jewish Childrearing Related Questions mail-order Mail Order Judaica On shamash.org, the parts of the reading lists are stored in the israel/lists/scj-faq/reading-lists directory. On rtfm.mit.edu, the reading lists are stored in the pub/usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists directory. Note that the archived versions of the reading lists are the posted versions; that is, they are each one large ASCII file. Mail: The files may also be obtained via Email by sending a message to faigin@shamash.org with any number of the following commands in the body of the mail message: send faq _portionnames_ send rl _portionnames_ The "send faq" version is used to obtain portions of the FAQ; the "send rl" version is used to obtain portions of the reading list. "_portionnames_" should be replaced by the names of the files to be retrieved, separated by spaces. The special file name "list" will retrieve a list of all files that make up the FAQ or reading list; the special file name "all" will retrieve all files on the appropriate list. Examples: send faq all send faq list send faq 01-FAQ-intro send rl all send rl general Alternatively, you may send a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the following line in the body of the message: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/(portionname) Where (portionname) is replaced by the appropriate subdirectory and filenames; for example, to get the first part of the reading list, one would say: send usenet/news.answers/judaism/reading-lists/general WWW: The FAQ and reading lists are available as a full hypertext tree on shamash.org. The URL is: http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Copyright Notice The soc.culture.jewish FAQ and reading lists are not to be reproduced for commercial use unless the party reproducing the FAQ agrees to the following: 1. They will contact the FAQ maintainer to obtain the latest version for their collection. 2. They will provide the FAQ maintainer with information on what collection the copy of the FAQ is in, and how that collection may be obtained. 3. They will agree, in writing, that the FAQ will be included in the collection without modification, and that acknowledgements of contributors to the FAQ remain in the FAQ. 4. They will agree, in writing, that the collection including the FAQ will be distributed on either a non-profit basis, or have some percentage of profit donated to Tzedakah (Charity) To support this, this FAQ is Compilation Copyright (c) 1993,1994,1995 by Daniel P. Faigin (the FAQ maintainer) on behalf of soc.culture.jewish. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please mail additions or corrections to me at faigin@pacificnet.net. 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