Battle of the two Talmuds
Subtitle: Judaism's struggle with power, glory, and guilt
By: by Leon H. Charney and Saul Mayzlish ; edited by Renøe Paley-Bain.
Contributors: Maizlish, Shaʼul.
Publisher: Barricade Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Fort Lee, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781569804391
Subjects: Talmud -- Criticism, Redaction; Talmud Yerushalmi -- Criticism, Redaction; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425; Jews -- Identity; Jews -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- History
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. The most dominant book of Jewish learning; title: Who's who in each Talmud?; title: The issue of the inheritance of Israel and its sacredness; title: The budding greatness of the Babylonian exile; title: The good life of the Exilarchs and the Amoraim; title: The issues dividing the Torah centers; title: The end of the Israeli Torah center; title: Pt. II. Two Talmuds : two schools of thought; title: Attitudes toward men and women in the Talmud; title: The Talmud in the diaspora; title: Opposition to the Talmud; title: What became of the Jerusalem Talmud?; title: Pt. III. The meaning of aliyah through the generations; title: Aliyah, zionism, and salvation; title: Epilogue.