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Title: mediocre
Review: This book tries to cover everything and as a result, covers nothing very well. The beginning of the book, which contains selections from the Bible, is particularly dreadful. Instead of starting with the Torah upon which Judaism is founded, it starts with one of the least accessible parts of the Hebrew Bible: the last few chapters of the book of Job. In fact, the Five Books of Moses are simply unrepresented in this book. Its fiction selections are heavily focused on 19th century Eastern Europe, ignoring much of the rest of Jewish life both before and after that era.
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