This book presents a group of distinguished scholars who examine key themes in Jewish religious life. Their essays revolve around the dimensions of rabbinic, intellectual, cultural, communal, educational, political, and social leadership, as well as a reflective look at one of the most tragic events in Jewish experience, towards the hope of repairing the world and not repeating such evil. The scholarship reproduced in this volume captures the essence of Touro University: remembering the past, perpetuating the rich historic Jewish tradition of tolerance and dignity, and managing the delicate ballet of serving humanity and the Jewish community at the same time. These papers are expressive of the Jewish commitment to intellectual inquiry, the transmission of knowledge, and the pursuit of social justice.
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Contents
Editors’ Preface
Simcha Fishbane and Eric M. Levine
Introduction
Alan Kadish
Part 1: Holocaust Studies
The Holocaust of the Polish Jews: Political History, Contested Memory
Stephan Lehnstaedt
“I was a Jew, I was a Pole, I was a Ukrainian Woman…”: The Genealogy of Passing on the Lwów-Dnipropetróvsk Rescue Trail
Ayelet Eva Herbst
Szmul Zygielbojm and Polish London: A History of Disillusionment
Michał Trębacz
Rural Areas, Polish Partisans, Nazi Violence
Daniel Brewing
“Thank You So Much for Bringing Us Closer to the Story of Poles Rescuing Jews”: Reception of Polish “Righteous” Museums in the Light of Visitor Book Entries—Eagle Pharmacy, Żabiński Villa, Ulma Museum
Zofia Wóycicka
“We Listened with Bated Breath”: Polish-Jewish Relations during the Holocaust in Poland’s Independent Culture of Memory of the 1980s
Florian Peters
Part 2: Jewish Leadership
Toward a Typology of Leadership
Mervin F. Verbit
Print Power: Rabbinical Authority Established through the Printed Word
Simcha Fishbane
Revisiting the Portuguese Jewish Response to the Influx of Refugees from the Spanish Expulsion
Michael A. Shmidman
Ish u-Pekudato: The Mission-Driven Leadership of Dr. Bernard Lander
Stanley L. Boylan
Stealing the Opponent’s Thunder: Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Reform
Judith Bleich
Silent or Outspoken? Jewish Leadership and the Dreyfus Affair
Zvi Jonathan Kaplan and Lauren Gottlieb Lockshin
The Methodologies of Rabbi Moshe Tendler as a Posek
John D. Loike
Six Days shall You Labor: Jewish Perspectives on Finding Meaning in Work
Sydney Engelberg
Circa l’autore
Yosef Robinson is an independent scholar living in Montreal, Quebec. His most recent scholarly project is translating Chaim Kruger’s Der Rambam: Zayn leben un shafn from Yiddish to English.
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