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Category Archives: R. J. J. Weinberg
‘Between East and West: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg’
Marc B. Shapiro (b. 1966) opens his 1995 Harvard thesis with a dramatic story. Larry McEnerney would mark it up approvingly. He would also find places where Shapiro reverts to graduate-school habits. Look at the first sentence of the preface. … Continue reading
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Remnants of the Fire: The Intellectual Life of Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg
Here is Marc Shapiro’s 1995 PhD thesis at Harvard on Rabbi Weinberg. Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg is born in 1884 in Ciechanowiec, a small town then under Russian rule. He shows talent early. By his teens he studies at the great … Continue reading
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Raising the Cost of Simplification: Marc B. Shapiro and the Limits of Orthodox Self-Understanding
Marc B. Shapiro has changed how a living religious tradition understands itself. His career sits at the fault line between academic history and Orthodox Jewish self-definition. His importance lies less in any single book than in the cumulative pressure his … Continue reading
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Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884-1966 by Marc B. Shapiro (2001)
In Marc B. Shapiro’s book, the struggle between tradition and modernity serves as a fertile ground for the strategic coordination described in Alliance Theory. The book examines the life and thought of Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, a figure who occupied … Continue reading
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