Lithuanian Yeshivas of the Nineteenth Century: Creating a Tradition of Learning - Rilegato

Stampfer, Shaul

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ISBN 10: 187477479X ISBN 13: 9781874774792

Casa editrice: Littman Library of Jewish, 2012

Riassunto

One of the key ways in which the traditional Jewish world of eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century was to change the system for educating young men so as to reinforce time-honoured, conservative values. The yeshivas established at that time in Lithuania became models for an educational system that has persisted to this day, transmitting the talmudic underpinnings of the traditional Jewish way of life. To understand how that system works, one needs to go back to the institutions they are patterned on: why they were established, how they were organized, and how they operated. This is the first properly documented, systematic study of the Lithuanian yeshiva as it existed from 1802 to 1914. It is based on the judicious use of contemporary sources - documents, articles in the press, and memoirs - with a view to presenting the yeshiva in its social and cultural context. Three key institutions are considered.

Pride of place in the first part of the book is given to the yeshiva of Volozhin, which was founded in 1802 according to an entirely new concept - total independence from the local community - and was in that sense the model for everything that followed. Chapters in the second part focus on the yeshiva of Slobodka, famed for introducing the study of musar (ethics); the yeshiva of Telz, with its structural and organizational innovations; and the kollel system, introduced so that married men could continue their yeshiva education. Topics covered include the leadership and changes in leadership; management and administration; the yeshiva as a place of study; and daily life. This English edition is based on the second Hebrew edition, which was revised to include information that became available with the opening of archives in eastern Europe after the fall of communism.

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L'autore:

Shaul Stampfer is Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also taught at Harvard University and elsewhere, including in Moscow, where he helped establish the Jewish University. He has been documenting the world of the Lithuanian yeshivas since the 1970s, and since the fall of Communism he has made many visits to archives in eastern Europe to further his research. Other areas of the Jewish social history of eastern Europe in which he has made seminal contributions include the history of Jewish education, Jewish demography and family life, community organization and leadership, and related topics. A collection of his essays will be published by Littman under the title Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Eastern Europe.

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• Editore: Littman Library of Jewish
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 187477479X
• ISBN 13: 9781874774792
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416