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<p>The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel.</p> <p>The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people — the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today.</p> <p>Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah — the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash — for their anthology. Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the express

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Author

Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky

Publisher

Schocken Books; Schocken

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805241136

Category

religious

Subjects

Judaism, Fiction, Reference

Rating

4.53 / 5 (111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14