This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.

This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.

Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in fine / like new

Stated First Edition, first printing with full number line in fine / like new condition. The pages are clean and crisp with no bent corners. Boards are as new, and the spine is square and tight. The dust jacket is clean and undamaged. The book is in excellent condition with an unclipped DJ, and no remainder mark. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.

Signed by Author(s) 2nd Printing. pp. 320. Dust jacket has soil and edge wear. A read copy. Not inscribed to anyone.

Signed by Author(s) 2nd Printing. pp. 320. Dust jacket has soil and edge wear. A read copy. Not inscribed to anyone.

x, 308, [2] pages. Notes. Glossary. Biographical Names. Inscribed by the

x, 308, [2] pages. Notes. Glossary. Biographical Names. Inscribed by the author on the title facing page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915-May 17, 2019) was an American author best known for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951) which won the Pulitzer Prize. His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, historical novels about World War II, and non-fiction such as This Is My God, an explanation of Judaism from a Modern Orthodox perspective, written for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. His books have been translated into 27 languages. The Washington Post called Wouk, who cherished his privacy, "the reclusive dean of American historical novelists". Historians, novelists, publishers, and critics who gathered at the Library of Congress in 1995 to mark Wouk's 80th birthday described him as an American Tolstoy. The destruction of European Jewry is compared to the epic loss of the Second Temple, and the Rabin assassination put in terms of a biblical analogy. Wouk worries about Jewry's cultural mutiny. The grandchildren of Marjorie Morningstar are demographic icicles. The hope, if not the glory, of a Jewish future may have to be qualitative rather than quantitative. Wouk, urging cultural survival through cultural literacy, devotes his large central section to a brisk but skillful summary of the Jewish classics: all the books of the Hebrew Bible, plus the talmud, the kabbalah, and Yiddish culture. His anecdotal evidence suggests that even secular Jews might enjoy his daily mental workout on the monkey bars of talmudic law. Wouk sees learning and living by Judaism's classics as Jewry's only hope for living on in the diaspora. His testament-enlivened by memories of Rabin, Ben-Gurion, Bellow, Agnon, and his family patriarchs-is more optimistic than ominous. Wouk at 84 leaves us with a recap of Torah wisdom and the encouragement to choose survival. Here is the lion of Judah in winter.