Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy
Author | : Marc B. Shapiro |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1999-11-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781909821750 |
ISBN-13 | : 1909821756 |
Rating | : 4/5 (756 Downloads) |
Download or read book Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy written by Marc B. Shapiro and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compellingly 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.