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In one of the few studies of the early immigrant Orthodox rabbinate in North America, Ira Robinson has delved into the Jewish community in Montreal in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930, introduces several rabbis who, in various ways, impacted their immediate congregations as well as the wider Montreal Jewish community. Most studies of the early North American rabbinate focus on only one rabbi. Here, though, Robinson carefully examines the interrelationship among a number of rabbis sharing the same communal "turf." He has diligently researched the unpublished source material these men, generally forgotten to history, left behind. Their writing offers a valuable glimpse at some of the struggles and challenges they faced in their own community, as well as those faced by Canadian Jewish society as a whole in the early twentieth century. Robinson introduces the reader to such leaders as Rabbi Hirsh Cohen, a fixture in the Jewish community of Montreal from 1901 through the late 1940s, Rabbi Simon Glazer, Cohen's main rival for the chief rabbinate, and revolutionary thinker Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg. The issues they faced, such as the Kosher meat wars of the 1920s, and the institutions they created, most notably the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, were factors of fundamental importance for the development of the second-largest Jewish community in Canada.

Rabbis --- Orthodox Judaism --- Jews, East European --- Jews --- History

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" Et que dit Rachi ? " Cette question rituelle rythme aujourd'hui encore l'étude traditionnelle de la Bible et du Talmud. Rachi est l'acronyme de Rabbi Salomon ben Isaac de Troyes (1040-1105), maître champenois qui, le premier, écrivit un commentaire exhaustif sur l'ensemble des textes sacrés du judaïsme. Après lui, plus personne n'entreprit une telle tâche, tant son œuvre semblait parfaite. Il fut le professeur direct ou indirect de presque tous les sages d'Europe du Nord et son génie fut même reconnu dans le monde chrétien. A ce jour, des centaines de commentaires ont été écrits sur son œuvre et les linguistes trouvent chez lui un témoin précieux de l'ancien français. L'auteur nous expose ici la vie, l'œuvre et l'influence de Rachi tout en dressant un portrait vivant de la vie juive dans la France du Moyen Age

Rachi de Troyes --- Rabbis --- Jewish scholars --- Rabbins --- Biography. --- Biographies --- Rashi, --- Troyes (France) --- Rashi --- Rabbis - France - Troyes - Biography. --- Jewish scholars - France - Troyes - Biography --- Salomon ben Isaac,

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The essays in this volume address the conundrum of how Jewish believers in the divine character of the Sinaitic revelation confront the essential questions raised by academic biblical studies. The first part is an anthology of rabbinic sources, from the medieval period to the present, treating questions that reflect a critical awareness of the Bible. The second part is a series of twenty-one essays by contemporary rabbis and scholars on how they combine their religious beliefs with their critical approach to the Bible.

Bible. --- Jewish studies. --- Old Testament. --- Sinaitic revelation. --- rabbis. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.

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This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of ”rabbinization” as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts. Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE.

Linguistics --- Late Antiquity --- Jewish communities --- Literature, Language and Culture --- cultural diversity --- Early Middle Age --- rabbis --- religious diversity

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Discusses the career and works of the 19th-century German Jewish reformer and scholar of religion. His treatment of the relationship between the Jesus of the New Testament and early Judaism challenged many antisemitic assumptions and conclusions of contemporary and subsequent Christian scholars, including liberal Protestant theologians. Geiger saw Jesus as a Pharisaic Jew, but this view totally destabilized Christian perspectives. Geiger was the first Jew to be thoroughly versed in Christian scholarship and to be armed with an array of rabbinic textual evidence unknown to his Christian counterparts. Yet as much as Geiger railed against Christian anti-Judaism, his own anti-Christian attitudes remined equally tenacious. Christian reactions to his writings frequently intensified the negative depiction of Judaism, particularly of the Pharisees, and insisted upon the opposition between Jesus and Judaism.

Jewish religion --- Jesus Christ --- Geiger, Abraham --- Rabbis --- Jewish scholars --- Biography --- Geiger, Abraham, --- Rabbis - Germany - Biography --- Jewish scholars - Germany - Biography --- Geiger, Abraham, - 1810-1874 --- Christianity and other religions --- Geleerden. --- Jewish interpretations of Jesus Christ. --- Jewish scholars. --- Jodendom. --- Judaism --- Leven van Jezus. --- Rabbis. --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Jesus Christ. --- Jesus Christus. --- Jesus --- Geiger --- Geiger, Abraham. --- Jewish interpretations. --- Neues Testament --- Exegese. --- Germany. --- Multi-faith.