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  title info:
    title: Books of the people
  name:
    name part: Halpern, Stuart W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ctu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 350 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In thinking about which works of Jewish thought can and should be an essential part of every Jewish library, I conceived of the volume you hold in your hand. Each chapter in this book features a scholar of Jewish studies revisiting a particularly foundational and salient work of maḥshevet Yisrael (Jewish thought), from medieval to modern, and discussing its themes, its historical context, the circumstances and background of its author (the "person of the book"), and, most importantly, its contemporary relevance.
  table of contents: Foreword / Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks -- Emunot VeDeot: the contemporary relevance of Rav Saadia Gaon's thought / Rabbi Yitzchak Blau -- Jews, Japan, and chosenness: the extraordinary universalism of Rabbi Judah Halevi's Kuzari / Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik -- Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: an enchanted book of puzzles / Dr. Warren Zev Harvey -- Sefer HaIkkarim: Rabbi Joseph Albo's exposition of Jewish dogma / Dr. Shira Weiss -- Learning from Maharal: a non-mystical approach with illustrations from Gevruot Hashem and other works / Rabbi Shalom Carmy -- The sacred writ of hasidism: Tanya and the spiritual vision of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady / Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse -- The Mayses of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: what makes a hasidic tale? / Dr. Jeremy Dauber -- Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Nineteen Letters on Judaism: Orthodoxy confronts the modern world / Rabbi Dr. Moshe Y. Miller -- Delving into the matter: Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin's Haamek Davar as a work of Jewish thought / Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl -- Rav Abraham Isaac Kook's Orot HaTeshuva: repentance as cosmology / Dr. Daniel Rynhold -- The halakhist as creator: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man / Rabbi Reuven Ziegler -- Rav Isaac Hutner's Paḥad Yitzḥak: a Torah map of the human mind and psyche in changing times / Dr. Yaakov Elman.
  note: editor, Stuart W. Halpern.
  note: "Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought."
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Jewish literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Jewish learning and scholarship
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    genre: Bibliography
  subject:
    topic: Jewish philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Best books
  classification: 296
  identifier: 9781592644704
  identifier: 1592644708
  record info:
    record content source: JAI
    record creation date: 170302
    record change date: 20170926115419.0
    record identifier: in00003870057