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

Stampfer, Shaul

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ISBN 10: 1906764603 ISBN 13: 9781906764609

Casa editrice: Littman Library of Jewish, 2014

Riassunto

The Jewish world of Eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the 19th century by changing the system for educating young men so as to better transmit the talmudic underpinnings of the traditional Jewish way of life. The yeshivas, established at that time in Lithuania, became models for an educational system that has persisted to this day. 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 book - now available in paperback - is the first properly documented, systematic study of the Lithuanian yeshiva as it existed from 1802 to 1914. It uses documents, articles from the press, and memoirs to present the yeshiva in its social and cultural context. Pride of place is given to the yeshiva of Volozhin, which in its total independence from the local community was the model for everything that followed. Attention is also given to the yeshiva of Slobodka, famed for introducing the study of musar (ethics); the yeshiva of Telz, with its structural and organizational innovations; and the kolel system, introduced so as to provide a framework where men could continue their education after marriage. 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. *** "Professor Stampfer suggests that one of the most striking legacies of these yeshivas and perhaps most noteworthy for today's educators of all types is the faith in the supreme value of education, a faith which enabled them to triumph over external challenges and their own human imperfections." - VCU Menorah Review, Summer/Fall 2014Ë

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Recensione:

'Stampfer sifts through mountains of documentation, searching for versions that ring true and painting an extraordinarily detailed account of every aspect of life in the famous yeshivot. His book is vital to the students of Orthodox Jewish history and of Jewish culture in eastern Europe.' Pinchas Roth, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews 'One of the foremost experts on eastern European Jewry ... He has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the nicest people in Israeli academia; but he seems to revel in challenging common assumptions, tweaking conventional wisdom, and making eastern European Jewry look very different from what everyone seems to think. He does all of these things in [this book], an expanded translation of his masterful 1995 Hebrew book on the subject. Its publication should change the way English-speaking Jews think about what a yeshiva is and ought to be.' --Yoel Finkelman, Jewish Ideas Daily

L'autore:

Shaul Stampfer is Rabbi Edward Sandrow Professor of Soviet and East European Jewry and chairman of the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also taught at Harvard University and elsewhere, including Moscow (1989 - 91), where he helped establish the Jewish University. Through his many published articles he has made a seminal contribution to the Jewish social history of eastern Europe, opening up new areas of research in the history of Jewish education, Jewish demography and family life, community organization and leadership, and related topics. He is the author of Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Eastern Europe, also published by the Littman Library.

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• Editore: Littman Library of Jewish
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1906764603
• ISBN 13: 9781906764609
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416