About

More than ten years in the making, The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is a landmark ten-volume series that collects 3,000 years of Jewish literature, artwork, and artifacts, presenting the best of Jewish culture in its historic and global entirety. This audacious undertaking is the result of an ongoing collaboration with Yale University Press, which is creating a free searchable database of the Posen Library materials, expected in May 2013. For more information on the Posen Library anthology (and its companion volume, Jews and Words, by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger), go to www.posenlibrary.com.

"Readers seeking primary texts, documents, images, and artifacts constituting Jewish culture and civilization will not be disappointed. More important, they might even be inspired." Booklist, starred review

"The importance of The Posen Library lies not merely in the realm of Jewish culture and spirit, but in the sphere of Israeli national identity, which nurtures and strengthens Jewish communities in the diaspora. This Library challenges the statement by some Orthodox Jews that "there is no Israel but in its Torah”—that religion is the singular core of Jewish identity. Against this notion, the anthology places piety in its rightful context as only one part of a rich, multigenerational Jewish culture, which has decisively secular elements, and which is authorized not by rabbis but by every Jew who loves it and draws sustenance from it." A.B. Yehoshua