Studies in Judaism: New Introduction by Ismar Schorsch

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This collection is about various topics in Jewish Studies by one of the greatest scholars of the previous century. The subjects span the whole length and breadth of Jewish history and literature, from 'A Hoard of Hebrew Manuscripts in Judaism' to 'The Dogmas of Judaism', and from 'Safed in the Sixteenth Century' to 'Abraham Geiger-Leopold Zunz'. In Encyclopedia Judaica, Meir Ben-Horin says, “Schecter’s Studies in Judaism remain indispensable documents of American Jewish religious Conservatism." Preface Contents A Hoard Of Hebrew Manuscripts I A Hoard Of Hebrew Manuscripts II The Study of the Bible A Glimpse of the Social Life of the Jews in the Age of Jesus the Son of Sirach On the Study of the Talmud The Memoirs of a Jewess of the Seventeenth Century Saints And Saintliness Four Epistles To The Jews Of England Safed In The Sixteenth Century. A City Of Legists And Mystics Appendixes Notes Index