Between Berlin and Slobodka
Author: Hillel Goldberg
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13:
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Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy
Author: Marc B. Shapiro
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 1800858469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompellingly and authoritatively written, this biography illuminates the dilemmas that Europe’s Jews have faced over the past century. The discussion of the inner struggles of one of twentieth-century Judaism’s most enigmatic religious leaders—a figure who became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy despite his traditional training in a Lithuanian yeshiva—elucidates many institutional and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world, and especially in pre-war Europe, that have so far received little attention.
The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas
Author: Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 0253058511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas tells the story of the last chapter of Jewish rabbinical schools in Eastern Europe, from the eve of World War I to the outbreak of World War II. The Lithuanian yeshiva established a rigorous standard for religious education in the early 1800s that persisted for over a century and continues to this day. Although dramatically reduced and forced into exile in Russia and Ukraine during World War I, the yeshivas survived the war, with yeshiva heads and older students forming the nucleus of the institutions. These scholars rehabilitated the yeshivas in their original locations and quickly returned to their regular activities. Moreover, they soon began to expand into areas now empty of yeshivas in lands occupied by Hasidic populations in Poland and even into the lands that would soon become Israel. During the economic depression of the 1930s, students struggled for food and their leaders journeyed abroad in search for funding, but their determination and commitment to the yeshiva system continued. Despite the material difficulties that prevailed in the yeshivas, there was consistently a full occupancy of students, most of them in their twenties. Young men from all over the free world joined these yeshivas, which were considered the best training programs for the religious professions and rabbinical ordination. The outbreak of World War II and the Soviet occupation of first eastern Poland and then Lithuania marked the beginning of the end of the Yeshivas, however, and the Holocaust ensured the final destruction of the venerable institution. The Golden Age of the Lithuanian Yeshivas is the first book-length work on the modern history of the Lithuanian yeshivas published in English. Through exhaustive historical research of every yeshiva, Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky brings to light for the first time the stories, lives, and inner workings of this long-lost world.
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Author: Michael A. Meyer
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2014-10-20
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0814338607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together leading Jewish historians, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and liturgists, Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity offers a collective view of a historically and culturally significant issue that will be of interest to Jewish scholars of many disciplines.
The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible
Author: Alan T. Levenson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011-08-16
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1442205180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. Levenson argues that German Jews created a religious Bible, Israeli Jews a national Bible, and American Jews an ethnic one. In each site, scholars wrestled with the demands of the non-Jewish environment and their own indigenous traditions, trying to balance fidelity and independence from the commentaries of the rabbinic and medieval world.
Orthodox Judaism in America
Author: Marc Raphael
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1996-05-14
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0313367728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last in a series of three volumes edited by Marc Lee Raphael surveying some of the major rabbinic and lay personalities who have shaped Judaism in America for the past two centuries, this work focuses on Orthodox Judaism. Along with a basic description of the achievements of some of the most notable leaders, a bibliography of their writings and sources for further study is included as well as an essay on Orthodox rabbinic organizations and a survey of American Orthodox periodicals. Of interest to scholars, students, and lay persons alike, this volume will inform readers about the earliest communities of Jews who settled in America as they developed the institutions of Orthodox Jewish life and set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law. These early American Jews followed a Spanish-Dutch version of Sephardic customs and rites. Their synagogues used traditional prayer books, promoted the celebration of Jewish holidays, established mikvahs, acquired Passover provisions, and arranged for cemetery land and burial services. While many of these Sephardic immigrants did not maintain halakha in their daily regimen as did their European counterparts, they set a public standard of compliance with Jewish law, thus honoring Jewish tradition. Further immigration of thousands of Jews from Western and Central Europe in the middle of the 19th century brought a world of traditional piety and extensive Jewish learning to America, exemplified by Rabbi Abraham Rice, who served in Baltimore, and Yissachar Dov (Bernard) Illowy, who served communities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. Such men marked the beginning of a learned and scholarly rabbinate in America. This volume provides valuable biographical insights regarding some of the most notable religious leaders in American Orthodoxy.
The Readers Guide to Judaism and Jewish Studies
Author: Sarah Imhoff
Publisher: Best Books on
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 1627970037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReader's Guide to Judaism
Author: Michael Terry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 1768
ISBN-13: 1135941572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reader's Guide to Judaism is a survey of English-language translations of the most important primary texts in the Jewish tradition. The field is assessed in some 470 essays discussing individuals (Martin Buber, Gluckel of Hameln), literature (Genesis, Ladino Literature), thought and beliefs (Holiness, Bioethics), practice (Dietary Laws, Passover), history (Venice, Baghdadi Jews of India), and arts and material culture (Synagogue Architecture, Costume). The emphasis is on Judaism, rather than on Jewish studies more broadly.
An American Orthodox Dreamer
Author: Seth Farber
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781584653387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-scale historical treatment of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the leading figure in twentieth-century American Jewish Orthodoxy.
Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland
Author: Hannah Holtschneider
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1474452612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture in a Scottish idiom. This book analyses the religious aspects of this transition through a transnational perspective on migration in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
