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Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy - The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966 (Paperback, New edition)
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Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy - The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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The span of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg's life (1884-1966)
illuminates the religious and intellectual dilemmas that
traditional Jewry has faced over the past century. Rabbi Weinberg
became a central ideologue of modern Orthodoxy because of his
positive attitude to secular studies and Zionism and his
willingness to respond to social change in interpreting the
halakhah, despite his traditional training in a Lithuanian yeshiva.
But Weinberg was an unusual man: even at a time when he was
defending the traditional yeshiva against all attempts at reform,
he always maintained an interest in the wider world. He left
Lithuania for Germany at the beginning of the First World War,
attended the University of Giessen, and increasingly identified
with the Berlin school of German Orthodoxy. Although initially an
apologist for the Nazi regime, he was soon recognized as German
Orthodoxy's most eminent halakhic authority in its efforts to
maintain religious tradition in the face of Nazi persecution. His
approach, then and in his later halakhic writings, including the
famous Seridei esh, derived from the conviction that the attempt to
shore up Orthodoxy by increased religious stringency would only
reduce its popular appeal. Using a great deal of unpublished
material, including private correspondence, Marc Shapiro discusses
many aspects of Weinberg's life. In doing so he elucidates many
institutional and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world, a
number of which have so far received little scholarly attention:
the yeshivas of Lithuania; the state of the Lithuanian rabbinate;
the musar movement; the Jews of eastern Europe in Weimar Germany;
the Torah im Derekh Eretz movement and its variants; Orthodox
Jewish attitudes towards Wissenschaft des Judentums; and the
special problems of Orthodox Jews in Nazi Germany. Throughout, he
shows the complex nature of Weinberg's character and the inner
struggles of a man being pulled in different directions.
Compellingly and authoritatively written, his fascinating
conclusions are quite different from those presented in earlier
historical treatments of the period.
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