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Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East
Zvi Zohar
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Description for Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East
Paperback. Series: The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 618.
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section discusses a range of original sources that reflect and represent the creativity of major rabbinic figures in these countries. The contents of the writings of these Sephardic rabbis challenge many commonly held views regarding Judaism’s responses to modern challenges. By bringing an additional, non-Western voice into the intellectual arena, ... Read more
Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section discusses a range of original sources that reflect and represent the creativity of major rabbinic figures in these countries. The contents of the writings of these Sephardic rabbis challenge many commonly held views regarding Judaism’s responses to modern challenges. By bringing an additional, non-Western voice into the intellectual arena, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441133298
SKU
V9781441133298
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About Zvi Zohar
Zvi Zohar is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Sephardic Law and Ethics at Bar Ilan University, where he teaches in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Jewish Studies. At the Shalom Hartman Institute, Prof. Zohar heads the Alan A. and Loraine Fischer Family Center for Contemporary Halakha. He has published over 60 scholarly articles in Hebrew, English and ... Read more
Reviews for Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East
No scholar has contributed more to our understanding of Sephardi rabbinical thought in the modern era than has Zvi Zohar, and at last, his wide-ranging study of the legal and religious creativity of Jewish spiritual leaders in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth century has appeared, not merely as a straight translation of his 2001 Hebrew original, ... Read more