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Collected Essays: Volume III

Collected Essays

Volume III
 
Edition number and title: 3
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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ISBN13:9781904113997
ISBN10:19041139911
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:236 pages
Size:239x163 mm
Weight:368 g
Language:English
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Short description:

Continuing his major contribution to medieval
Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical German
Pietists and their main literary work Sefer ?asidim, and on the writings and personality of the Provençal commentator
Ravad of Posqui?res. In both areas he challenges reigning views and sets a new
agenda for research.

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Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of ?asidei Ashkenaz and its main literary work, Sefer ?asidim, and on the writings and personality of the Provençal commentator Ravad of Posqui?res. In both areas Soloveitchik challenges mainstream views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought. Some of the essays are revised and updated versions of work previously published and some are entirely new, but in all of them Soloveitchik challenges reigning views to provide a new understanding of medieval Jewish thought.

The section on Sefer ?asidim brings together over half a century of Soloveitchik?s writings on German Pietism, many of which originally appeared in obscure publications, and adds two new essays. The first of these is a methodological study of how to read this challenging work and an exposition of what constitutes a valid historical inference, while the second reviews the validity of the sociological and anthropological inferences presented in contemporary historiography. In discussing Ravad?s oeuvre, Soloveitchik questions the widespread notion that Ravad?s chief accomplishment was his commentary on Maimonides? Mishneh torah; his Talmud commentary, he claims, was of far greater importance and was his true masterpiece. He also adds a new study that focuses on the acrimony between Ravad, as the low-born genius of Posqui?res, and R. Zerahyah ha-Levi of Lunel, who belonged to the Jewish aristocracy of Languedoc, and considers the implications of that relationship.


'Like all of Professor Soloveitchik?s studies, the book is distinguished by the thoroughness of its scholarship and attention to even the smallest details... reading Professor Soloveitchik?s three volumes of magisterial essays will certainly engage and educate the reader, and one can only hope that we will merit to see a fourth volume in the not too distant future.'
Alan Jotkowitz, Lehrhaus

Table of Contents:

PART I. SEFER ?ASIDIM
Specific Studies
1. Three Themes in Sefer ?asidim
2. On Dating Sefer ?asidim
3. Piety, Pietism, and German Pietism: Sefer ?asidim I and the Influence of ?asidei Ashkenaz
4. Pietists and Kibbitzers
5. The Midrash, Sefer ?asidim, and the Changing Face of God
6. Two Notes on the Commentary on the Torah of R. Yehudah he-?asid
7. Topics in the ?okhmat ha-Nefesh

Methodological Issues
8. On Reading Sefer ?asidim
9. Sefer ?asidim and the Social Sciences



PART II. RAVAD AND PROVENÇAL STUDIES
10. Rabad of Posqui?res: A Programmatic Essay
11. The Literary Remains of the Gedol ha-Mefarshim: A Study in Personal Rivalry and the Repulsion of Opposites
12. A Response to R. Buckwold's Critique of 'Rabad of Posqui?res', Part I
13. A Response to R. Buckwold's Critique of 'Rabad of Posqui?res', Part II
14. Jewish and Roman Law: A Study in Interaction
15. The Riddle of Me'iri's Recent Popularity
16. Printing and the History of Halakhah
17. Angle of Deflection



Bibliography of Manuscripts
Source Acknowledgements
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Subjects