Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Foreward [to Majesty and Humility]
(Urim, 2012)One such leader and teacher was Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Rav. In his lifetime, Rabbi Soloveitchik was well-known and highly respected for his original mind and charismatic personality, his intimate knowledge of ... -
Foreward [to Memories of a Giant]
(Jerusalem : Urim ; Brookline, MA : The Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute ; Brooklyn, New York : Lambda Publishers, c2003., 2003)The Rabbi Soloveitchik Institute is pleased to join with Urim Publications in making this book available to all the Rav's students and admirers and to the broader public on the occasion of his tenth yahrtzeit. I have no ... -
Foreword [to Modern Orthodox Judaism: A documentary history]
(Jewish Publication Society of America ; University of Nebraska Press, 2016)There is much wisdom here, of course, but the worldview of Modern Orthodoxy argues that Amichai is wrong. At the end of the day, both the "arch from the Roman period" ( the tradition) and the "man who bought fruit and ... -
The fragility of religious doctrine: Accounting for Orthodox acquiescence in the belief in a second coming.
(OUP: Oxford University Press, 2002-05)In the last seven years, we have witnessed a watershed in the Judaism that cries out for explanation. With minimal resistance, full view of world Jewry, two propositions from which Jew in the last millennium would have ... -
From Crusades to Blood Libels to Expulsions: Some new approaches to Medieval antisemitism
(Touro College Graduate School of Jewish Studies, 1997, Marc)Despite ubiquitous, ritualized gestures of obeisance toward Salo Baron's rejection of the "lachrymose conception" of Jewish history, most historians of medieval Jewry continue to employ a periodization structured by ... -
From Germany to Northern France and Back Again: A Tale of Two Tosafist Centres.
(London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; Liverpool : in association with Liverpool University Press, 2018)"Though the existence of Jewish regional cultures is widely known, the origins of the most prominent groups, Ashkenaz and Sepharad, are poorly understood, and the rich variety of other regional Jewish identities is often ... -
From Proto-Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew: the history of "-akh" and "-ah".
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The future of the past: On creating meaningful Jewish memories for our students
(Urim, 2021)Dannie Epstein Grajower a"h was a teacher who understood and modelled all four points I consider indispensable for success as a Jewish educator. 1) Jewish tradition mattered to her. Personally. A lot. 2) She understood ... -
A generation of scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction in the Medieval World
((RCA) Rabbinical Council of America, 2004)To what extent has research in the past three decades changed our understanding of Jewish-Christian interaction in the pre-modern period? To what degree has the assumption that Jewish-Christian relations were dominated ... -
German Pietism In Northern France: The Case Of R. Isaac Of Corbeil
(New York, NY : Michael Sharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Hoboken, NJ : distributed by Ktav, 1997)The three major figures of German Pietism (Hasidut Ashkenaz), R. Samuel he-Hasid, his son R. Judah he-Hasid (d. 1217), and R. Judah's student R. Eleazar of Worms (d. ca. 1230), were all descended from the Qalonymides, ... -
Gershom ben Judah
(Chiacgo: Pitzroy Dearborn, 2000)Talmudic thought in medieval Ashkenaz effectively begins with Gershom ben Judah, or Rabbenu Gershom as he is usually called. He headed the academy at Mainz and composed a talmudic commentary (embellished by his successors ... -
“Getting Along” in Parkchester: A New Era in Jewish–Irish Relations in New York City 1940–1970.
(MDPI, 2018)Abstract: The history of conflict between New York City’s Irish Americans and east European Jews dates back to the close of the 19th century. They disputed over jobs, union memberships, housing, and frequently over ... -
Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob ben Reuben: A study in the transmission of medieval polemic
(University of Chicago Press, 1974)One of the most influential medieval polemics against the Jews was Gilbert Crispin's Disputatio ludaei et Christiani, which was written in the late eleventh century and may reflect a genuine discussion between Crispin ... -
Good and evil, truth and falsity: Maimonides and moral cognetivism.
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Haazinu: Teshuvah, punishment and the leadership of Moshe
(Maggid Books, 2010)The essence, the substance, of the teachings of Judaism, needs to be constant from one generation to the next. But the idiom, style, manner, approach and mode of communication of that essence or that substance, may, and ... -
Haftarah of Tishah Be-Av morning: Themes of destruction and exile
(Maggid Books, 2011)Thus, the haftarah for Tishah Be-Av morning serves two functions. One, that it shares with all other haftarot, is to express themes relevant to that particular day's Torah reading. The other, unique to it, is to elicit ... -
Halakhah (Medieval Judaism).
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Halakhah and Metziut (Realia) in Medieval Ashkenaz: Surveying the Parameters and Defining the Limits
(Chur, New York : Harwood Academic Publishers, 2003)Even a cursory perusal of the literature of the rishonim brings the reader face to face with the ways in which medieval halakhists dealt with social realia that appeared, prima facie, to conflict with talmudic law. On ... -
Halakhic authority in a world of personal autonomy
(Maggid Books, 2012)Jewish tradition allows for a variety of religious experiences ; Jewish authority speaks in a multiplicity of voices.
