The Jewish intellectual tradition : a history of learning and achievement /
The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even lif...
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Brookline, Massachusetts :
Academic Studies Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Judaism and Jewish life.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: Libraries of the Jewish People
- Golden Libraries in the "Golden Age," Tenth-Twelfth Centuries: The Library of R. Samuel Ha-Nagid
- Nahmanides and His Library
- From Manuscript to Printing Press: The Library of Leone Modena
- The Modern Period: The Library of Rabbi Samson R. Hirsch
- The Library of Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson
- The Contemporary University Library
- Part Two: From Text to Success: Salient Ideas and Values and Their Influence
- Introduction
- Respect for Precedent and Critical Independence
- Logical Reasoning and Intellectual Honesty in Pursuit of Truth
- The Primacy of Education
- A Purposeful Life
- Summary and Conclusions.