Books of the people
By: editor, Dr. Stuart W. Halpern
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Maggid
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781592644704
Subjects: Jewish learning and scholarship; Bibliography; Jews; Best books; Intellectual life; Jewish literature; History and criticism; Jewish philosophy; Judaism
Other titles: Revisiting classic works of Jewish thought
Description: "In thinking about which works of Jewish thought can and should be an essential part of every Jewish library, I conceived of the volume you hold in your hand. Each chapter in this book features a scholar of Jewish studies revisiting a particularly foundational and salient work of maḥshevet Yisrael (Jewish thought), from medieval to modern, and discussing its themes, its historical context, the circumstances and background of its author (the "person of the book"), and, most importantly, its contemporary relevance."--Preface, pages ix-x.
Notes: "Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks; title: Emunot VeDeot: the contemporary relevance of Rav Saadia Gaon's thought  -- Rabbi Yitzchak Blau; title: Jews, Japan, and chosenness: the extraordinary universalism of Rabbi Judah Halevi's Kuzari  -- Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik; title: Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: an enchanted book of puzzles  -- Dr. Warren Zev Harvey; title: Sefer HaIkkarim: Rabbi Joseph Albo's exposition of Jewish dogma  -- Dr. Shira Weiss; title: Learning from Maharal: a non-mystical approach with illustrations from Gevruot Hashem and other works  -- Rabbi Shalom Carmy; title: The sacred writ of hasidism: Tanya and the spiritual vision of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady  -- Rabbi Dr. Ariel Evan Mayse; title: The Mayses of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: what makes a hasidic tale?  -- Dr. Jeremy Dauber; title: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch's Nineteen Letters on Judaism: Orthodoxy confronts the modern world  -- Rabbi Dr. Moshe Y. Miller; title: Delving into the matter: Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin's Haamek Davar as a work of Jewish thought  -- Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl; title: Rav Abraham Isaac Kook's Orot HaTeshuva: repentance as cosmology  -- Dr. Daniel Rynhold; title: The halakhist as creator: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man  -- Rabbi Reuven Ziegler; title: Rav Isaac Hutner's Paḥad Yitzḥak: a Torah map of the human mind and psyche in changing times -- Dr. Yaakov Elman.