I, the author, created this book as the result of a lecture series that 1 gave for several years in Southern California, and evolved as the result of my answering the many questions that 1 have been asked about my religion and my people. It has been patterned after a book that was written by the manager of a Japanese hotel in Hokkaido Japan who responded to similar questions by informing the asker that the answers would be written on the dinner menu for that evening. The accumulation of these answers resulted in his book "We Japanese," thus the title of this book, "We Jews." Bernard Ash