Studies in Judaism / by S. Schechter ; new introduction by Ismar Schorsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schechter, S. (Solomon), 1847-1915.

Series:

Jewish studies classics ; v.3/1-3.

Jewish studies classics ; v.3/1-3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

History.

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Gorgias Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2003.

Summary:

Here is a collection of studies about various topics in Jewish studies by oneof the greatest scholars of the previous century.

Contents:

First Series: Introduction.

The Chassidim.

Nachman Krochmal and the "Perplexities of the time."

Rabbi Elijah Wilna, Gaon.

Nachmanides.

A Jewish Boswell.

The dogmas of Judaism.

The history of Jewish tradition.

The doctrine of divine retribution in rabbinical literature.

The law and recent criticism.

The Hebrew collection of the British Museum.

Titles of Jewish books.

The child in Jewish literature.

Woman in temple and synagogue.

The earliest Jewish community in Europe.

Second series: 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 [Frau Glückel von Hameln]

Saints and saintliness.

Four epistles to the Jews of England.

Safed in the sixteenth century, a city of legists and mystics.

Third series: The Jewish saints in mediaeval Germany

"As others saw Him:" A retrospect, A.D. 54

Abraham Geiger

Leopold Zunz

On the study of the Talmud

The Talmud

Notes of lectures on Jewish philanthropy.

Notes:

Reprint of the original edition, Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1896-1924.

Partly reprinted from various periodicals. Published in 3 series/volumes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1593330383

1593330391

1593330405

OCLC:

53279098