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Collected essays. Volume II / Haym Soloveitchik.
Van Pelt Library DS135.F81 S64 2014
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Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS135.F81 S64 2014 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soloveitchik, Haym, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--France--History--To 1500.
- Jews.
- Jews--Germany--History--To 1500.
- Jews--France--Economic conditions.
- Jews--Germany--Economic conditions.
- Judaism--France--History--To 1500.
- Judaism.
- Judaism--Germany--History--To 1500.
- History.
- Economic conditions.
- France--Ethnic relations.
- France.
- Ethnic relations.
- Germany--Ethnic relations.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 425 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2014.
- Contents:
- Part I Re-Evaluation of Eleventh-Century Ashkenaz
- Introduction 3
- 1 Agobard of Lyons, Megillat Ahima'ats, and the Babylonian Orientation of Early Ashkenaz 5
- 2 Dialectics, Scholasticism, and the Origin of the Tosafot 23
- 3 Minhag Ashkenaz ha-Kadmon: An Assessment 29
- 4 The Authority of the Babylonian Talmud and the Use of Biblical Verses and Aggadah in Early Ashkenaz 70
- 5 On the Use of Aggadah by the Tosafists: A Response to I. M. Ta-Shma 101
- 6 Characterizing Medieval Talmudists: A Case Study 106
- 7 Communications and the Palestinian Origins of Ashkenaz 122
- 8 The Palestinian Orientation of the Ashkenazic Community and Some Suggested Ground Rules for the Writing of Halakhic History 145
- 9 The 'Third Yeshivah of Bavel' and the Cultural Origins of Ashkenaz-A Proposal 150
- A Response to David Berger 202
- Part II Martyrdom Under Cross and Crescent
- Introduction 219
- 10 Between Cross and Crescent 223
- 11 Halakhah, Hermeneutics, and Martyrdom in Ashkenaz 228
- 12 Maimonides' Iggeret ha-Shemad: Law and Rhetoric 288
- 13 Responses to Critiques of 'Maimonides' Iggeret ha-Shemad: Law and Rhetoric' 331
- I A Response to David Hartman 331
- II A Response to Yair Lorberbaum and Hayyim Shapira 338
- III A Response to Aryeh Strikovsky 347
- IV A Response to Hillel Novetsky 352
- Part III Mishneh Torah
- 14 Classification of Mishneh Torah: Problems Real and Imaginary 367
- 15 Mishneh Torah: Polemic and Art 378.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781904113980
- 1904113982
- OCLC:
- 896890298
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