Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies: Doctoral Dissertations by Author "Berger, David"
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The Legal Philosophy and Jurisprudence of Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman (Ramban)
(2022-01)Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman (Ramban) was an influential communal leader, biblical exegete, Jewish philosopher, kabbalist, poet, and halakhist. Ramban contributed extensively and profoundly to the whole range of these disciplines. ... -
“What Power do we have over assailants today?”: Violence and Jewish Courts in High Medieval Europe
(2020-07)This study considers violent conflicts and their resolutions within the Jewish communities of Northern France and Germany during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based primarily on Jewish legal sources, it places ... -
When an American Jew produced: Judah David Eisenstein and the first Hebrew Encyclopedia
(2020-08)Between 1907 and 1913, Judah David Eisenstein (1854–1956), an amateur scholar and entrepreneurial immigrant to New York City, produced the first modern Hebrew encyclopedia, Ozar Yisrael. The Ozar was in part a traditionalist ...
