Compellingly and authoritatively written, this biography illuminates the dilemmas that Europe's Jews have faced over the past century. The discussion of the inner struggles of one of twentieth-century Judaism's most enigmatic religious leaders--a figure who became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy despite his traditional training in a Lithuanian yeshiva--elucidates many institutional and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world, and especially in pre-war Europe, that have so far received little attention.
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Compellingly and authoritatively written, this biography illuminates the dilemmas that Europe's Jews have faced over the past century. The discussion of the inner struggles of one of twentieth-century Judaism's most enigmatic religious leaders--a figure who became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy despite his traditional training in a Lithuanian yeshiva--elucidates many institutional and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world, and especially in pre-war Europe, that have so far received little attention.
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2002
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New. A compelling study of a Jewish religious leader whose life exemplifies the dilemmas that Europe's Jews have faced over the past century. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480. 2002. Revised ed. paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. viii, 283 pp. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, National Jewish Book Awards finalist. Very clean and sharp, minor bumping to tail tips, otherwise pristine with like DJ.