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The pillar of Volozhin : Rabbi Naftali Zevi Yehuda Berlin and the world of nineteenth-century Lithuanian Torah scholarship / Gil S. Perl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perl, Gil S.
- Series:
- Studies in Orthodox Judaism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish learning and scholarship--Lithuania--History--19th century.
- Jewish learning and scholarship.
- Jewish scholars--Lithuania--Biography.
- Jewish scholars.
- Rabbis--Lithuania--Vilnius--Intellectual life.
- Rabbis.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History--19th century.
- Bible.
- Berlin, Naphtali Ẓevi Judah, 1817-1893.
- Berlin, Naphtali Ẓevi Judah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The work of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Neziv, ranks amongst the most often read rabbinic literature of the nineteenth century. His breadth of learning, unabashed creativity, and penchant for walking against the stream of the rabbinic commentarial establishment has made his commentaries a favorite amongst rabbinic scholars and scholars of rabbinics alike. Yet, to date, there has been no comprehensive and systematic attempt to place his intellectual oeuvre into its historical context-until now. In the Pillar of Volozhin, Gil Perl traces the influences which helped mold and shape the Neziv's thinking while also opening new doors into the world of early nineteenth-century Lithuanian Torah scholarship, an area heretofore almost completely untouched by academic research.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements / Perl, Gil
- Preface
- Chapter I: The Text of 'Emek ha-Neẓiv
- Chapter II: Neẓiv as an Early Nineteenth-Century Midrash Commentator
- Chapter III: 'Emek ha-Neẓiv: An Early Nineteenth-Century Midrash Commentary
- Chapter IV: The Young Neẓiv and the Ancient Rabbis
- Chapter V: 'Emek ha-Neẓiv in its Cultural Context
- Chapter VI: From 'Emek ha-Neẓiv to Ha'amek Davar
- Chapter VII: The Polemics of Ha'amek Davar
- Afterword: Avenues for Further Research
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-053-5
- OCLC:
- 820353127
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