This book is mostly useful because it is easy to read and understand. However, the editors have missed SEVERAL spelling errors, wich I find unexcusable in a college textbook that costs so much money. What do we pay them so much for?
Also, in one chapter the psychology term "tabula rasa" (which is Latin for "blank slate") is discussed. And throughout the chapter the author calls it "tabula ROSA." That does not mean blank slate. That means pink slate. To describe someone's cognitive state at birth as being a PINK slate makes absolutely no sense.
It looks to me like they used a computer spell checker instead of a human to edit the book, and the computer didn't know what "rasa" was and suggested replacing it. Some foolish editor told it to accept the suggestion without thinking (or maybe without knowing) that rasa really was correct. This even led my professor to refer to the concept as tabula rosa in his class lectures. See how quickly incompetence in the editing room can spread to masses of students, and then onward to everyone they eventually teach or work with?

This is a very good collection of Jewish proverbs. However, it should have been much better if the original Hebrew letters were shown instead of the transliterated ones.

This book is good if you know some hebrew and want to prime your memory for specific situations.

Being a lover of Jewish poetry, I eagerly bought this book when I saw it on your web site. However, I was a bit disappointed. First, because I felt that some of the translations were a bit strained - although I cannot comment on their quality, not speaking the original language of the poems, I had the feeling that in some cases an effort was made to maintain the rhyme, and I believe that, in translating poems (even rhyming ones) one should not try to force rhymes, but stick to the flavor and meanings of the original as close as possible. I have seen few exceptions to this (translations which are poems in their own right, the work of very gifted translators), and that is why I prefer translations who keep to the literal side of the original. Also, I would have enjoyed at least some succint biographical information on the poets or some explanation of the poems' contexts - especially of ancient works. This would have contributed to the richness and completeness of the anthology, which, being as it is, is a bit sparse. In spite of the above, this is an interesting book which contains some very beautiful works deserving of attention.