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Title Books of the people / editor, Dr. Stuart W. Halpern.

Publication Info. New Milford, CT, USA : Maggid Books, an imprint of Koren Publishers Jerusalem Ltd., 2017.
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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  210 BOO    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  296 BOOKS    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  296 HALPERN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition
Description xvii, 350 pages ; 23 cm
Note "Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Foreword / Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks -- Emunot VeDeot: the contemporary relevance of Rav Saadia Gaon's thought / Rabbi Yitzchak Blau -- Jews, Japan, and chosenness: the extraordinary universalism of Rabbi Judah Halevi's Kuzari / Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik -- Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: an enchanted book of puzzles / Dr. Warren Zev Harvey -- Sefer HaIkkarim: Rabbi Joseph Albo's exposition of Jewish dogma / Dr. Shira Weiss -- Learning from Maharal: a non-mystical approach with illustrations from Gevruot Hashem and other works / Rabbi Shalom Carmy -- The sacred writ of hasidism: Tanya and the spiritual vision of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady / Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse -- The Mayses of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: what makes a hasidic tale? / Dr. Jeremy Dauber -- Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Nineteen Letters on Judaism: Orthodoxy confronts the modern world / Rabbi Dr. Moshe Y. Miller -- Delving into the matter: Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin's Haamek Davar as a work of Jewish thought / Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl -- Rav Abraham Isaac Kook's Orot HaTeshuva: repentance as cosmology / Dr. Daniel Rynhold -- The halakhist as creator: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man / Rabbi Reuven Ziegler -- Rav Isaac Hutner's Paḥad Yitzḥak: a Torah map of the human mind and psyche in changing times / Dr. Yaakov Elman.
Summary "In thinking about which works of Jewish thought can and should be an essential part of every Jewish library, I conceived of the volume you hold in your hand. Each chapter in this book features a scholar of Jewish studies revisiting a particularly foundational and salient work of maḥshevet Yisrael (Jewish thought), from medieval to modern, and discussing its themes, its historical context, the circumstances and background of its author (the "person of the book"), and, most importantly, its contemporary relevance."--Preface, pages ix-x.
Subject Jewish literature -- History and criticism.
Jewish learning and scholarship.
Jews -- Intellectual life.
Judaism -- Bibliography.
Jewish philosophy.
Best books.
Best books. (OCoLC)fst00830867
Jewish learning and scholarship. (OCoLC)fst00982825
Jewish literature. (OCoLC)fst00982834
Jewish philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01730516
Jews -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00983287
Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
Genre/Form Bibliographies.
Bibliographies. (OCoLC)fst01919895
Bibliography. (OCoLC)fst01423717
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Author Halpern, Stuart W., editor.
Note Subtitle from dust jacket : Revisiting classic works of Jewish thought
ISBN 9781592644704 (hardcover)
1592644708 (hardcover)
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