Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. “For Truth Is More Precious than Anything Else” 1
4. Bibliography of the Writings of Jacob J. Schacter 9
5. Part One: Textual Traditions
6. 1. Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on the Messianic Age: Reactions and Controversies through the Ages 25
7. 2. A New Paradigm of the Jew/Gentile Relationship: Maimonides’s Analysis of the Miẓvah le-Haḥayoto 48
8. 3. In the Ecumenical Footsteps of Rabbi Jacob Emden: The Curious Case of Pinchas Lapide 65
9. 4. Rationalizing Kerei u-Ketiv: Radak’s Methodology in His Biblical Commentaries 90
10. 5. “The Law Follows the Lenient View in Mourning”: The History and Reconsideration of a Talmudic Principle 101
11. 6. A Community for the Sake of Heaven: Emden’s Understandings of Christianity and Islam 122
12. 7. Tosafist Collections in the Writings of Ḥayyim Joseph David Azulai (Ḥida): The Case of Tosefot Shittah 144
13. 8. Grandfather and Grandson: Teachers and Interpreters in Hebrew Ben Sira and Greek Sirach 163
14. 9. Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk’s Final Salvo in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy: Ḥarvot Ẓurim 185
15. 10. The Taboo against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah (1837–1942) 206
16. 11. Twentieth-Century American Orthodox Responses to Living in a Malkhut shel Ḥesed 234
17. 12. Reception of Malachi’s Temple Critique in Judaism 258
18. Part Two: Memory and the Making of Meaning
19. 13. The Last Trial of Jacob Emden: Community, Memory, Authority 283
20. 14. Papering Over an Era of American Orthodox Pragmatism: The Case of College 298
21. 15. Cultural Memory, Spiritual Critique, and Piyyut 319
22. 16. “A Faithful Home in Israel”? Jewish Dis/Connections in Contemporary American Jewish Literature 349
23. 17. Who Is Not a Jew? Notes on the Reception of the Principle “Though He Sinned, He Remains an Israelite” 366
24. 18. New York Jewish History and Memory: Opportunities and Challenges 384
25. 19. Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in Early Modern and Modern Europe 401
26. 20. Pilgrims’ Progress? Ḥakham Ẓevi and the History of Visitors to Israel Observing One Day of Yom Tov 421
27. 21. Herschel Schacter’s Encounter with Mordecai Kaplan 440
28. Part Three: (Re)Creating a Usable Past
29. 22. Remember, Research, Commemorate: The (Re)Making of a Holocaust Research Institute 457
30. 23. Prayer in a Time of Pandemic: Loneliness, Liturgy, and Virtual Community 480
31. 24. Or Nogah and the Uses of History: Blidstein, Petuchowski, and the Diverse Readings of a Nineteenth-Century Reform Halakhic Text 504
32. 25. From Rabbiner Doktor to Rabbanit Doctor: Academic Education and the Evolution of Israeli Religious Leadership 522
33. 26. Why Was Titus Killed by a Gnat? Reflections on a Rabbinic Legend 544
34. 27. Anchor to Springboard: Uses and Revaluations of Masorah in Medieval Ashkenaz 569
35. 28. Ḥasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: A Reappraisal 591
36. 29. The Slifkin Affair: Contexts, Texts, and Subtexts of Israeli and American Orthodox Responses 611
37. 30. A Guide for Today’s Perplexed? The Changing Face of Maimonidean Scholarship 632
38. 31. The Image of the Gra in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik 656
39. Contributors 669