Chapters on Jewish Literature vs Orthodoxy: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Chapters on Jewish Literature Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams · 1899 ★★★★☆ 3.8 159 pages · ≈ 2 h 57 m · Challenging

Among his works on Jewish writings is Chapters on Jewish Literature (1899), a survey of the period from the fall of Jerusalem in ad 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1786.

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Cover of Orthodoxy Orthodoxy Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1874 ★★★★☆ 4.2 118 pages · ≈ 2 h 11 m · Challenging

Orthodoxy is G. K. Chesterton’s response to his critics’ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics, had “merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.” In his…

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Chapters on Jewish LiteratureOrthodoxy
Goodreads 3.9 (15) 4.2 (43624)
Hardcover — 4.1 (63)
Apple Books — 4.5 (132)

Reception

Chapters on Jewish LiteratureOrthodoxy
Ratings 15 43624
Editions 12 551
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 56333
Reading it now — 6752
Written reviews — 3309
Wikipedia attention — 7603
Pages 159 118

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