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Author Shapiro, Marc B

Title Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy : the Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966
Published London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Note on Transliteration; Note on Sources; List of Abbreviations; 1: Early Life (1884-1905); 2: Pilwishki (1906-1913); 3: The First World War and its Aftermath (1914-1920); 4: Giessen and Beyond (1920-1932); 5: Response to the New Nazi Government (1933-1934); 6: The Nazi Era (1933-1945); 7: Post-War Years (1946-1966); Afterword; Appendices; 1: Lebenslauf-Autobiographical Note; 2: Letter to Hitler; 3: Letter from Jacob Rosenheim; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary Using previously unpublished material, including private correspondence, Shapiro (Judaic Studies, U. of Scranton, Pennsylvania) discusses the many aspects of the life and thought of Rabbi Weinberg (1884-1966), an important ideologue of modern Orthodoxy. The author focuses on his evolving philosophical orientation, from his early years in Poland, his years in Germany, Lithuania, and Poland from WWI through the Nazi era, and his post-war years in Switzerland
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Subject Weinberg, Jehiel Jacob, -1966.
SUBJECT Weinberg, Jehiel Jacob, -1966 fast
Subject Rabbis -- Biography
Rabbis
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781909821750
1909821756