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Emet le-Ya'akov

Facing the Truths of History: Essays in Honor of Jacob J. Schacter
Buch | Hardcover
682 Seiten
2023
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-312-0 (ISBN)
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Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter. These articles, like the honoree, engage with the importance of both history and memory and are divided into three categories: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past.
Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, who has served the American and international Jewish community with distinction in his roles as a synagogue rabbi, university professor, and public intellectual. These articles, like the honoree, recognize the importance of both history and memory, emphasize the necessity of accuracy in historiography, and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. They are divided into three categories that help frame the discussion around “facing the truths of history”: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. The volume also includes a brief sketch of Schacter’s life and work and a bibliography of his publications.

Zev Eleff is President of Gratz College and Professor of American Jewish History in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than fifty scholarly articles. His most recent book is Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America.  Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with David N. Myers, he coedited Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller.

“For Truth Is More Precious than Anything Else”

Zev Eleff and Shaul Seidler-Feller




Bibliography of the Writings of Jacob J. Schacter

Menachem Butler




Textual Traditions







1. Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on the Messianic Age:
Reactions and Controversies through the Ages

David Berger




2. A New Paradigm of the Jew/Gentile Relationship: Maimonides’s
Analysis of the Miẓvah le-Haḥayoto

Ari Berman




3. In the Ecumenical Footsteps of Rabbi Jacob Emden: The
Curious Case of Pinchas Lapide

Mark Gottlieb




4. Rationalizing Kerei u-Ketiv: Radak’s Methodology in His
Biblical Commentaries

Naomi Grunhaus




5. “The Law Follows the Lenient View in Mourning”: The History
and Reconsideration of a Talmudic Principle

Shmuel Hain




6. A Community for the Sake of Heaven: Emden’s Understandings
of Christianity and Islam

Susannah Heschel




7. Tosafist Collections in the Writings of Ḥayyim Joseph
David Azulai (Ḥida): The Case of Tosefot Shittah

Ephraim Kanarfogel




8. Grandfather and Grandson: Teachers and Interpreters in
Hebrew Ben Sira and Greek Sirach

Ari Lamm




9. Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk’s Final Salvo in the
Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy: Ḥarvot Ẓurim

Shnayer Leiman




10. The Taboo against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American
Haggadah (1837–1942)

Jonathan D. Sarna




11. Twentieth-Century American Orthodox Responses to Living in
a Malkhut shel Ḥesed

Elana Stein Hain




12. Reception of Malachi’s Temple Critique in Judaism

Shlomo Zuckier






Memory and the Making of Meaning




13. The Last Trial of Jacob Emden: Community, Memory, Authority

Elisheva Carlebach




14. Papering Over an Era of American Orthodox Pragmatism: The
Case of College

Zev Eleff and Menachem Butler




15. Cultural Memory, Spiritual Critique, and Piyyut

Michael Fishbane




16. “A Faithful Home in Israel”? Jewish Dis/Connections in
Contemporary American Jewish Literature

Sylvia Barack Fishman




17. Who Is Not a Jew? Notes on the Reception of the
Principle “Though He Sinned, He Remains an Israelite”

Matt Goldish




18. New York Jewish History and Memory: Opportunities and
Challenges

Jeffrey S. Gurock




19. Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in Early
Modern and Modern Europe

Debra Kaplan




20. Pilgrims’ Progress? Ḥakham Ẓevi and the History of
Visitors to Israel Observing One Day of Yom Tov

Yosie Levine




21. Herschel Schacter’s Encounter with Mordecai Kaplan

Rafael Medoff




(Re)Creating a Usable Past






22. Remember, Research, Commemorate: The (Re)Making of a
Holocaust Research Institute

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz




23. Prayer in a Time of Pandemic: Loneliness, Liturgy, and
Virtual Community

Lois C. Dubin




24. Or Nogah and the Uses of History: Blidstein,
Petuchowski, and the Diverse Readings of a Nineteenth-Century Reform Halakhic
Text

David Ellenson




25. From Rabbiner Doktor to Rabbanit Doctor: Academic Education
and the Evolution of Israeli Religious Leadership

Adam S. Ferziger




26. Why Was Titus Killed by a Gnat? Reflections on a Rabbinic
Legend

Steven Fine




27. Anchor to Springboard: Uses and Revaluations
of Masorah in Medieval Ashkenaz

Talya Fishman




28. Ḥasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: A Reappraisal

Benjamin R. Gampel




29. The Slifkin Affair: Contexts, Texts, and Subtexts of Israeli
and American Orthodox Responses

Benjamin J. Samuels




30. A Guide for Today’s Perplexed? The Changing Face of
Maimonidean Scholarship

David Shatz




31. The Image of the Gra in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B.
Soloveitchik

Jeffrey R. Woolf




Contributors

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Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 233 mm
Gewicht 1124 g
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Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
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