Tifʼeret le-Yiśraʼel
Subtitle: Tiferet leYisrael : jubilee volume in honor of Israel Francus
By: edited by Joel Roth, Menahem Schmelzer, Yaacov Francus
Contributors: Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Publisher: Jewish Theological Seminary
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780873341516
Subjects: Bibliography; Criticism, interpretation; Jewish law; Rabbinical literature; Talmud
Other titles: Tiferet leYisrael; Jubilee volume in honor of Israel Francus; Tifʼeret le-Yiśraʼel :; Sefer ha-yovel li-khevod Yiśraʼel Frantsus
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Consists of articles in Hebrew and English.
Table of contents: title: Israel Francus : a biography / Yitzchak Francus; title: Israel Francus : a personal tribute / Ismar Schorsch; title: Professor Israel Francus : an appreciation / Leonard R. Levy; title: Ribbono shel'Olam/God, Dominus : what does it mean? / Jose Faur; title: "Bury my coffin deep!" : Zoroastrian exhumation in Jewish and Christian sources / Geoffrey Herman; title: The Adiabenian royal family in rabbinic literature of late antiquity / Richard Kalmin; title: The Sabbath as a sanctuary in space / David Kraemer; title: The decisive shift : from geonim to Rabbi Yitshak Alfasi / Leonard R. Levy; title: Textual criticism : as a prerequisite for the study of rabbinic thought : on God not giving recompense for fulfilling commandments and on the immutability of the created world / Chaim Milikowsky; title: "Like Torah scrolls that are rolled up" : the story of the death of Rabbi Eliezer in Sanhedrin 68a / Devora Steinmetz; title: "So why did the sages say, 'until midnight'?" : on M.Berakhot 1:1 / Burton L. Visotzky; title: Applying Jewish law to new circumstances / Elliot N. Dorff; title: Caesarean birth and Pidyon Haben / Mayer Rabinowitz; title: Gufei Torah : the limit to Halakhic pluralism / Joel Roth