IMMANUEL ETKES, The Besht: Magician, Mystic, and Leader, translated from the Hebrew by Saadya Sternberg, BrandeisUniversity Press, Waltham, Ma., 2005, $39.95. Three eighteenth-century Jewish leaders epitomize the trends which dominated most Jewish religious thought in the West until very recently. The lives of these three remarkable men overlapped by just over 30 years, from 1729 to 1760; but they never met. They were so different in both temperament and intellectual outlook that it is challenging to imagine how they might have conversed — had such a meeting ever taken place. The three were Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), the pioneer of Enlightenment Judaism; Elijah, the Vilna Gaon (1720–1799), the archetypal rabbinic scholar, mistrustful of religious enthusiasm but utterly devoted to Torah learning and piety; and Israel ben Eliezer (1700–1760), more commonly known as the Baal Shem Tov, abbreviated to Besht.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4324/9780203789049-23
S. Kaplan, C. Rosen
L'article decrit la culture des juifs Ethiopiens qui ont emigre vers Israel. L'A. s'interroge sur l'evolution et le devenir de l'identite culturelle des juifs d'Ethiopie sur le territoire israelien. Selon lui celle-ci est preservee et la transformation culturelle de ce groupe est liee a une evolution intrinseque de la culture juive ethiopienne
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With the death of Louis Jacobs on 1st July 2006, just 16 days before his 86th birthday, Anglo-Jewry lost one of its finest scholars and thinkers, a courageous proponent of the truth as he saw it, and a compassionate pastor and human being.
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