Shaul Stampfer’s new book, Families Rabbis and Education: Essays on Traditional Jewish Society in Eastern Europe,
has just been published. Below is the table of contents.
The Social Implications of Very Early Marriage in Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Love and Family Life among East European Jewry in the Modern Period
Scientific Welfare and Lonely Old [...]
The Jewish Review of Books is about to hit the stands. If both Shmuel Rosner and Azzan Yadin have articles in it, who wouldn’t want to subscribe.
On the Main Line has posted some very interesting sources about the way in which some Jewish travelers ate kosher food on their journeys. I would add the following from this exhibit (see under “Jews and the Liquor Trade”),
By the end of the eighteenth century about 80 percent of rural Jews in Poland-Lithuania were [...]
I have posted the complete interview with Yoav Sorek in one file on Google Docs. The Hebrew version can be found here. Some of the formatting in Hebrew was difficult on Google Docs, so there are some weird placements of punctuation. The English version is here.
Update: The journalist who interviewed Yoav Sorek, [...]
Part I, Part II, Part III.
Sorek discussed the theological and halakhic implications which are to be the end of the exile in his first big article, “The Torah of Eretz Yisrael and the Torah of the Diaspora (hutz la’aretz),” twelve-and-a-half years ago in the journal “Azure.” He was then a fellow at the Shalem [...]
If you’re in the market for some Confederate Jewish ephemera, there’s a letter for sale on Ebay written by Abraham Charles Myers. (hat tip)
Abraham Charles Myers was born in Georgetown, Georgia in 1811. His grandfather had been Charleston’s first rabbi. He attended West Point after which he fought in the Seminole and Mexican War. During [...]
Martin Goodman’s article “Under the Influence: Hellenism in Ancient Jewish Life” from the latest issue of the BAR is online.
How and why and to what extent Greek culture was absorbed into the ancient Jewish world is not always clear, but that it was is undeniable. To some extent, the answers depend on whether we [...]
ADDeRabbi posted some comments on Melvin Urofsky’s book Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. As a follow-up, here is a fascinating video of a lecture by Richard Polenberg, the author of The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process, titled “Louis Brandeis and Benjamin Cardozo: Judaism and the Crisis of the 1930s.” [...]
From Hillel Halkin’s review of Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People in the New Republic.
By the books an age reads and respects ye shall know it. What, then, shall we say of an age in which a book so intellectually shoddy that once, not very long ago, it would have been flunked [...]
H-German has a review of two new books on Medieval European Jewry. The first book is Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France. The second book is David Joshua Malkiel, Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250. I finally arrived at [...]
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