Emet le-Ya‘akov
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Edited by:
Zev Eleff
and Shaul Seidler-Feller
About this book
Author / Editor information
Zev Eleff is President of Gratz College and Professor of American Jewish History in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than fifty scholarly articles. His most recent book is Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America.
Seidler-Feller Shaul :Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with David N. Myers, he coedited Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller.
Zev Eleff is President of Gratz College and Professor of American Jewish History in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than fifty scholarly articles. His most recent book is Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America.
Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with David N. Myers, he coedited Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller.
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“In celebration of the immense impact Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter’s work as a rabbi, professor, and scholar has made on the Jewish community, both in America and internationally, Emet le-Ya’akov is a compendium of essays centered around the topic of seeking historical truth and maintaining intellectual integrity. The essays raise poignant questions of historiography and facing uncomfortable truths…”
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Contents
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“For Truth Is More Precious than Anything Else”
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Bibliography of the Writings of Jacob J. Schacter
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1. Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on the Messianic Age: Reactions and Controversies through the Ages
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2. A New Paradigm of the Jew/Gentile Relationship: Maimonides’s Analysis of the Miẓvah le-Haḥayoto
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3. In the Ecumenical Footsteps of Rabbi Jacob Emden: The Curious Case of Pinchas Lapide
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4. Rationalizing Kerei u-Ketiv: Radak’s Methodology in His Biblical Commentaries
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5. “The Law Follows the Lenient View in Mourning”: The History and Reconsideration of a Talmudic Principle
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6. A Community for the Sake of Heaven: Emden’s Understandings of Christianity and Islam
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7. Tosafist Collections in the Writings of Ḥayyim Joseph David Azulai (Ḥida): The Case of Tosefot Shittah
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8. Grandfather and Grandson: Teachers and Interpreters in Hebrew Ben Sira and Greek Sirach
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9. Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk’s Final Salvo in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy: Ḥarvot Ẓurim
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10. The Taboo against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah (1837–1942)
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11. Twentieth-Century American Orthodox Responses to Living in a Malkhut shel Ḥesed
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12. Reception of Malachi’s Temple Critique in Judaism
258 - Part Two: Memory and the Making of Meaning
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13. The Last Trial of Jacob Emden: Community, Memory, Authority
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14. Papering Over an Era of American Orthodox Pragmatism: The Case of College
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15. Cultural Memory, Spiritual Critique, and Piyyut
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16. “A Faithful Home in Israel”? Jewish Dis/Connections in Contemporary American Jewish Literature
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17. Who Is Not a Jew? Notes on the Reception of the Principle “Though He Sinned, He Remains an Israelite”
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18. New York Jewish History and Memory: Opportunities and Challenges
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19. Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in Early Modern and Modern Europe
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20. Pilgrims’ Progress? Ḥakham Ẓevi and the History of Visitors to Israel Observing One Day of Yom Tov
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21. Herschel Schacter’s Encounter with Mordecai Kaplan
440 - Part Three: (Re)Creating a Usable Past
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22. Remember, Research, Commemorate: The (Re)Making of a Holocaust Research Institute
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23. Prayer in a Time of Pandemic: Loneliness, Liturgy, and Virtual Community
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24. Or Nogah and the Uses of History: Blidstein, Petuchowski, and the Diverse Readings of a Nineteenth-Century Reform Halakhic Text
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25. From Rabbiner Doktor to Rabbanit Doctor: Academic Education and the Evolution of Israeli Religious Leadership
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26. Why Was Titus Killed by a Gnat? Reflections on a Rabbinic Legend
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27. Anchor to Springboard: Uses and Revaluations of Masorah in Medieval Ashkenaz
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28. Ḥasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: A Reappraisal
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29. The Slifkin Affair: Contexts, Texts, and Subtexts of Israeli and American Orthodox Responses
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30. A Guide for Today’s Perplexed? The Changing Face of Maimonidean Scholarship
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31. The Image of the Gra in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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