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The Responsa literature. / By Solomon B. Freehof.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM523 .F73
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freehof, Solomon Bennett, 1892-1990.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Responsa.
- Responsa--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : Printed by American Book-Stratford Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1955-5715.
- Contents:
- Origins and development of Responsa
- The leading respondents
- A selection of Responsa
- Widespread debates
- History in the Responsa
- Modern inventions
- Curious Responsa
- Prospective development of the Responsa literature.
- Notes:
- "The purpose of this book is to give a general description of the responsa literature: its development, the great contributors to it, how it reflects Jewish history, the stirring controversies which it records, and even some of the strange and curious items which it contains and which serve to illustrated the spiritual depth and geographical extent of its influence."--Introduction.
- "Jacket design by Sidney Feinberg."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok June 1955".
- OCLC:
- 484312
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