Rabbis and their community
Subtitle: studies in the Eastern European Orthodox rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930
By: Ira Robinson
Contributors: Concordia University. Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781552381861
Subjects: Rabbis; Jews; Orthodox Judaism; East European Jews; Biography; History
Notes: Co-published by the Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-158) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Rabbinate in North America and its importance; title: "Pa is a Mussolini" : a portrait of Rabbi Hirsh Cohen; title: Rabbi Simon Glazer : a rival for the Chief Rabbinate; title: Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg : Kabbalist and communal leader; title: Rabbis and Shoh̲tim : the cases of Getsel Laxer and Hyman Crestohl; title: The founding of the Jewish Community Council of Montreal (Vaʹad ha-ʹIr); title: The Kosher meat wars of the 1920s and their aftermath; title: New thoughts from an ancient source : Hirsh Wolofsky's commentary on the Torah.