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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kadish, Alan, 1956- (Author), Shmidman, Michael A. (Author), Fishbane, Simcha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brookline, Massachusetts : Academic Studies Press, [2020]
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.