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to this day, a large and impressive scholarly literature has appeared in this century on the history and theology of the hasidic movement. But while scores of books, monographs and articles on various aspects of Hasidism continue to surface each year, precious little has been written about the 'other half' of the traditional society of Jewish eastern Europe-the world of the mithnagdim and its culture of talmudic learning. It is for this reason that Shaul Stampfer's impressive and erudite history of the primary Lithuanian yeshivoth of the nineteenth century is such a welcome and important contribution to Jewish scholarship. Stampfer's study, roughly spanning the period 1800-1914, traces the institutional histories, profiles the educational philosophies and evaluates the intellectual legacies of three of the most important Lithuanian yeshivoth of the previous century: Volozhin, Slobodka and Telz. Although, as Stampfer himself admits, there were other major Lithuanian yeshivoth that merit scholarly attention-most notably Mir, which remains the oldest continually functioning yeshiva-this pioneering work, by providing rich portraits of these three institutions, firmly establishes the hi
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- Author
- Allan Nadler
- Publisher
- Journal of Jewish Studies
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)