This extensive series delves into the depth and breadth of Jewish culture, history, and thought. It explores seminal texts, intellectual movements, and historical events that have shaped Jewish civilization across the centuries. Offering scholarly analyses and original research, it provides readers with an insightful and comprehensive understanding of this rich and enduring tradition.
Professor Altmann quotes widely from personal letters and other contemporary documents in this biographical study of one of the most celebrated figures of the German Enlightenment. A considerable amount of the primary source material is offered in English translation.
This book discusses many aspects of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg's life, and through them illuminates the religious and intellectual dilemmas that traditional Jewry has faced over the past century