The Many Ways of Being Human

2.4

The Hebrews and Jewish Culture

Two candles, a cup of wine and two loaves under a cloth: the Friday table looks the same in Vilna, Baghdad and Casablanca, though the bread, the tunes and even the language differ. The chapter shows how a culture held together for nearly two thousand years without territory, army or capital, through time, rules for the body, and a text.