The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility by Elliott Rabin Yiddish Learning from its modest start at

from its modest start at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century

Set in Lodz

Roth endeavors to return the language to its former glory

which he recovered from a cellar when he returned from Auschwitz after the war

This volume features forty-seven stories selected by Isaac Bashevis Singer from all his short work published in English between 1957 and 1981

The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility by Elliott Rabin Yiddish Learning from its modest start atApproaching the Bible in an original waycomparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literatureElliott Rabin addresses a core biblical question: What is the Bible telling us about what it means to be a hero? Focusing on the lives of six major biblical charactersMoses, Samson, David, Esther, Abraham, and JacobRabin examines their resemblance to hero types found in (and perhaps drawn from) other literatures and analyzes why the Bible depicts its heroes