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Filed of scholarly interest is Jewish religious history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include religious trends, popular religion, homiletics, and sermons.
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High on the ideological and theological agenda of extreme Haredi groups is the delegitimization of the Zionist enterprise, its institutions, and the State of Israel, and the subsequent expectation of their rank-and-file to thoroughly isolate themselves from them. Based on existing scholarship and previously undiscovered primary sources, this articl...
As the Second World War came to a close in the spring of 1945, the scope of destruction within Jewish society throughout Europe became clear. One of the components of this culturally and ideologically diverse society that faced numerous challenges was Orthodoxy. An era of 150 years of Jewish Orthodoxy that was centered in Europe came to an end, and...
A preliminary examination of Rabbi Jacob Gordon’s sermons within their biographical, communal, religious, historical, social,
and cultural contexts, offers insight into the challenges Jewish immigrants faced in early twentieth century Toronto—as this
Orthodox immigrant rabbi perceived them. These sermons provide details and perspectives, and they p...
In recent years we evidence a welcome rise in scholarly interest in eastern European Orthodox rabbis and preachers who settled in North America during the mass immigration era and between the two World Wars. The impact of these rabbis on their communities as well as on the wider Jewish community varied, and those who left manuscripts and published...
A preliminary examination of Rabbi Jacob Gordon’s sermons within their biographical, communal, religious, historical, social, and cultural contexts, offers insight into the challenges Jewish immigrants faced in early twentieth century Toronto—as this Orthodox immigrant rabbi perceived them. These sermons provide details and perspectives, and they p...
American Jewish History 92.1 (2005) 123-125
Most scholarly works relating to Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903–1993) focus on the philosophical, theological, and/or halakhic aspects of his writings. With the exception of a few Orthodox-oriented biographical publications, we still lack a comprehensive and critical biography of Soloveitchik. In ligh...
Over the last twenty years, a popular, internal discourse has developed among Haredi women in Israel. Both male and female speakers and preachers, addressing exclusively female audiences, discuss “traditional” as well as “controversial” issues. This article focuses on three central “controversial” issues raised in their discourse – understanding th...
Modern Judaism 22.2 (2002) 142-168
Since the Second World War, Haredi society has been vastly preoccupied with the Holocaust, and publications on this subject seem to have proliferated with special intensity during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Menachem Friedman terms this preoccupation "almost obsessive." The popular literature pr...
American Jewish History 87.1 (1999) 1-27
In a "prefatory note" to one of Rabbi Dr. Israel H. Levinthal's books, Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (1872-1946), Chief Rabbi of England, writes:
During the decade following the First World War, hundreds of thousands of Jews moved from New York's Lower East Side and other heavily immigrant-populated areas to the fiv...
This chapter highlights the life of Rabbi Moshe Shimon Sivitz, analyses the main issues discussed in his sermons, and offers a number of observations regarding the continuity and change in the content of his sermons. This discussion sheds additional light on the problems and concerns of Orthodox rabbis who emigrated to America at the turn of the ce...
American Jewish History 86.1 (1998) 77-106
In a letter dated July 16, 1920, to M. B. Friedman, one of the leaders of Cleveland's Jewish community, Cyrus Adler wrote:
Adler's letter, written toward the end of the mass immigration era, suggests that low salaries paid to rabbis, especially in smaller towns, drove men away from the profession. Do Adler...
Modern Judaism - Volume 17, Number 3, October 1997