Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy
The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966
Marc B. Shapiro

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1999 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist

'A refreshing pleasure . . . arguably the best biography of a twentieth-century rabbi yet written, a work of serious scholarship that greatly enriches our understanding of the history of European Judaism.' Allan Nadler, Forward

'This is a first rate, scholarly book'
Mechy Frankel, Tradition

'This excellent study . . . is more than a first-rate intellectual biography. It is a portrait of Orthodoxy in the modern world . . . Shapiro combines exhaustive research with exquisite scholarship; this is not self-serving hagiography but a balanced historical study deserving a very wide audience.' Stephen D. Benin, Religious Studies Review

Compellingly and authoritatively written, this biography illuminates the dilemmas that Europe's Jews have faced over the past century. The discussion of the inner struggles of one of twentieth-century Judaism's most enigmatic religious leaders-a figure who became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy despite his traditional training in a Lithuanian yeshiva-elucidates many institutional and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world, and especially in pre-war Europe, that have so far received little attention.

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Marc B. Shapiro holds the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Brandeis and Harvard universities, he is also editing the collected writings of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, the first volume of which appeared in 1998.

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1999 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist

Author Information - Contents - Reviews - Publication Details - Prizes