Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox
Author: Marc B. Shapiro
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher Description
Posts
Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy
Author: Marc B. Shapiro
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1999-11-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1909821756
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.
Changing the Immutable
Author: Marc B. Shapiro
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781904113607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A consideration of how segments of Orthodox society rewrite the past by eliminating that which does not fit in with their contemporary world-view. This wide-ranging and original review of how this policy is applied in practice adds a new perspective to Jewish intellectual history and to the understanding of the contemporary Jewish world"--
Saul Lieberman
Author: Elijah J. Schochet
Publisher: JTS Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780873341110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver twenty years have passed since Professor Saul Lieberman died on his way to Israel. Yet despite his prodigious intellectual attainments and seminal scholarly publications, no full-scale biography of Lieberman has appeared. For many, his life story is simply described by noting his early education in Lithuania's traditional yeshivot, his introduction to the tools of modern scholarship in Palestine, where he commenced some of his most influential work, and the flourishing of his scholarship in America, where he taught for over forty years. In this volume, we have sought to present a broader and deeper portrait of Lieberman the academic as well as Lieberman the man - a book that we hope will prove to be of interest to the scholar and layperson alike. - From the authors' Introducation
Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters
Author: Marc B. Shapiro
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 800 years after his death, the figure of Moses Maimonides--rabbi, philosopher, doctor, and communal leader--continues to fascinate. Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters unites the traditional rabbinic approach and the modern academic perspective to forge a new understanding of this iconic teacher. This groundbreaking work by Marc B. Shapiro, which includes an essay on Maimonides' approach to superstition in rabbinic literature and features three previously unpublished letters by Rabbi Joseph Kafih, will be essential reading for scholars and students of Jewish studies.
Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World
Author: Louis H. Feldman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 1400820804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.
Untold Tales of the Hasidim
Author: David Assaf
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 161168305X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the untold tale of shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism
Rav Kook
Author: Yehudah Mirsky
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014-02-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0300164246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIV The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life /div
The Observant Life
Author: Martin Samuel Cohen
Publisher: Aviv Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 935
ISBN-13: 9780916219499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA decade in the making, The Observant Life: The Wisdom of Conservative Judaism for Contemporary Jews contains a century of thoughtful inquiry into the most profound of all Jewish questions: how to suffuse life with timeless values, how to remain loyal to the covenant that binds the Jewish people and the God of Israel and how to embrace the law while retaining an abiding sense of fidelity to one s own moral path in life. Written in a multiplicity of voices inspired by a common vision, the authors of The Observant Life explain what it means in the ultimate sense to live a Jewish life, and to live it honestly, morally, and purposefully. The work is a comprehensive guide to life in the 21st Century. Chapters on Jewish rituals including prayer, holiday, life cycle events and Jewish ethics such as citizenship, slander, taxes, wills, the courts, the work place and so much more.
The Jew in the Modern World
Author: Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 772
ISBN-13: 9780195074536
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the Holocaust and the establishment of the state of Israel, Judaism's long journey through the modern age has been a complex and tumultuous one, leading many Jews to ask themselves not only where they have been and where they are going, but what it means to be a Jew in today's world. Tracing the Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrating the transformation of Jewish religion, culture, and identity from the 17th century to 1948, the updated edition of this critically acclaimed volume of primary materials remains the most complete sourcebook on modern Jewish history. Now expanded to supplement the most vital documents of the first edition, The Jew in the Modern World features hitherto unpublished and inaccessible sources concerning the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe, women in Jewish history, American Jewish life, the Holocaust, and Zionism and the nascent Jewish community in Palestine on the eve of the establishment of the State of Israel. The documents are arranged chronologically in each of eleven chapters and are meticulously and extensively annotated and cross-referenced in order to provide the student with ready access to a wide variety of issues, key historical figures, and events. Complete with some twenty useful tables detailing Jewish demographic trends, this is a unique resource for any course in Jewish history, Zionism and Israel, the Holocaust, or European and American history.
