Table of Contents

Preface Prologue Part I: The Question 1. Why Be Jewish? 2. Answers 3. Who Am I? Who Are We? 4. A Letter in the Scroll Part II: The Journey 5. A Palace in Flames 6. The Idea of Man 7. Conventional Mortality 8. The Chosen People Part III: The Vision 9. Exodus and Revelation 10. Conventional Society 11. Tragedy and Triumph 12. Truth Lived Part IV: The Future 13. In the Valley of the Shadow 14. Ambivalence and Assimilation 15. This is Ours 16. Why Am I a Jew? References Acknowledgements Index

About the Author

Sir Jonathan Sacks, who died in late 2020, was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth. He was the author of numerous books, including Celebrating Life, From Optimism to Hope, The Persistence of Faith and The Dignity of Difference, for which he won a Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

Reviews

Mentioned in Jewish News.--Sanford Lakoff

Book chosen by Lord Alton of Liverpool for his Lenten reading.-The Times

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Mentioned in Jewish News.--Eric Moonman