Beyond the Glory: Community Rabbis in Eastern Europe / / Mordechai Zalkin.
The heroes of Beyond the Glory are not the famous rabbis, the heads of the yeshivas, or Hasidic righteous, but rather the "second circle" rabbis - the community rabbis in 19th century Eastern Europe, the backbone of the rabbinical world of the time,those who knew the world of their communi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Inhalt
- Part I
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Path to the Rabbinic Throne
- Chapter 2. “So that his honor may dwell in our midst”
- Chapter 3. “With Money or its Equivalent”: Buying the Rabbinate
- Chapter 4. On the Verge of the “Promised Land”
- Epilogue “To one who is great in Torah study”?
- Part II
- Chapter 5. Upon the Rabbinic Throne
- Chapter 6. The Rabbi and His Community
- Chapter 7. The Rabbi and His Family
- Chapter 8. Facing Reality
- Epilogue. “Master of the City”?
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Sites