Over 3,000 years of Jewish culture, history and thought are brought to life in Norman F. Cantor's The Jewish Experience. Containing selections from more than 100 written texts as well as more than 50 illustrations - this extraordinary collection includes short stories, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs and other first-person accounts. In addition, the book includes Professor Cantor's insightful commentary that puts the selections into context. As such, it assembles expressions and descriptions of Jewish feeling and reason, hope and despair, expectation and disappointment, and ambition and love throughout history and throughout the world. Here you will find both the familiar and the obscure - everything from Maimonides on the difference between Judaism and Christianity to Philip Roth on sex and money in Newark, from Franz Kafka on the coming of the Messiah to Letty Cotten Pogrebin on the Hollywood image of the American Jewish Woman, and from Primo Levi on Auschwitz to Irving Howe on New York's Lower East Side. In short, The Jewish Experience is a unique evocation of Jewish voices expressing Jewish concerns, beliefs and ideas from the Patriarchs to today.