A FAR-FLUNG FRATERNITY IN A FERTILE DESERT: THE EMERGENCE OF RABBINIC SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICA, 1887-1926

A FAR-FLUNG FRATERNITY IN A FERTILE DESERT: THE EMERGENCE OF RABBINIC SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICA, 1887-1926

Writing in 1926, bibliophile Ephraim Deinard found little that distinguished the rabbinic writing that he had studied in Europe from the kind produced by immigrant rabbis in the US. Deinard counted just over two dozen books printed in the US that one might classify as "Hiddushei Torah," ra...

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Veröffentlicht in:Modern Judaism 2014-10, Vol.34 (3), p.353-369
1. Verfasser: Eleff, Zev
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
American literature
Book publishing
Clergy
Jewish culture
Jewish migration
Jewish peoples
Judaic studies
Rabbis
Renaissance literature
Scholarly publishing
Talmud
Torah
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Zusammenfassung:Writing in 1926, bibliophile Ephraim Deinard found little that distinguished the rabbinic writing that he had studied in Europe from the kind produced by immigrant rabbis in the US. Deinard counted just over two dozen books printed in the US that one might classify as "Hiddushei Torah," rabbinic novellae. These sorts of casuistic works, distinctive for their theoretical style and analytical solutions to resolve contradicting statements in the Talmud and its commentators, constituted just a sliver of the nearly 1000 Hebrew books included in Deinard's catalog of American Hebrew books.
ISSN:0276-1114
1086-3273
DOI:10.1093/mj/kju012