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Presents biographical essays on individuals who have shaped Jewish history, including Hillel, Moses Mendelssohn, and Theodor Herzl.

Title Links in the chain : shapers of the Jewish tradition / Naomi Pasachoff. [electronic resource]
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date c1997
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-235) and index.
English
Content Hillel -- Johanan ben Zakkai -- Akiba ben Joseph -- Beruriah -- Judah Hanasi -- Saadia Gaon -- Samuel Hanagid -- Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac) -- Judah Halevi -- Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) -- Nahmanides (Moses ben Nahman) -- Joseph Caro -- Gracia Mendes Nasi -- Isaac Luria -- Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov -- Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, the Gaon of Vilna -- Moses Mendelssohn -- Rebecca Gratz -- Moses Montefiore -- Leopold Zunz -- Samson Raphael Hirsch -- Abraham Geiger -- Isaac Mayer Wise -- Solomon Schechter -- Lily Montagu -- Martin Buber -- Mordecai Menahem Kaplan -- Franz Rosenzweig -- Joseph Dov Soloveitchik -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginzberg) -- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda -- Theodor Herzl -- Henrietta Szold -- Chaim Weizmann -- David Ben-Gurion -- Berl Katznelson -- Golda Meir -- Manachem Begin -- Yigael Yadin -- Yitzhak Rabin.
Series Oxford profiles
Extent 1 online resource (238 p. ) ill.

Language English
National Library system number 997010711926505171
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