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Rabbi Yeheil Michel Epstein and his Arukh Hashulchan
Michael J. Broyde
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Rabbi Yeheil Michel Epstein and his Arukh HashulchanIntroductionYechiel Mikhel Epstein (also Yeheil Michel Epstein, b. 1829–d. 1908) was among the mos...
Rashi's Commentary on the Bible
Devorah Schoenfeld
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Rashi’s Commentary On The BibleIntroductionRabbi Solomon ben Isaac (b. 1040–d. 1106), commonly known by his acronym Rashi, was the single most influen...
Reform Judaism
Michael A. Meyer
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Reform Judaism Introduction Reform Judaism is one of the three major Jewish religious denominations. Also known as Liberal or Progressive Juda...
Revelation
Benjamin Sommer
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Revelation Introduction Revelation refers to an act in which God conveys a message, teaching, or truth to humanity or to a group of human bein...
Ritual Objects and Folk Art
Shalom Sabar
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Ritual Objects and Folk Art Introduction Decorative ritual objects constitute a central category in the field of traditional Jewish art. In co...
Rosenzweig, Franz
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Franz RosenzweigIntroductionA philosopher of religion, Franz Rosenzweig (b. 1886–d. 1929) is most prominently associated with the renaissance of Jewis...
Russia
ChaeRan Freeze
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Russia Introduction Following the partitions of Poland (1772–1795), the Russian Empire inherited one of the largest Jewish populations in Euro...
Russian Jewish Culture
Jeffrey Veidlinger
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Russian Jewish CultureIntroductionRussian Jewish culture has historically been expressed in a variety of languages, most notably Russian, Hebrew, and ...
Sabbath
Omer Hacker
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
SabbathIntroductionIn Judaism, the Sabbath is the seventh and the sacred day of the week, a recurring seven-day temporal unit. The concept of Sabbath ...
Sabbatianism
Pawel Maciejko
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Sabbatianism Introduction Sabbatianism was a movement in Judaism spurred by the messianic pronouncements of the Ottoman Jew Sabbatai Tsevi (b....
Sacrifice in the Bible
Henrietta Wiley
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Sacrifice in the BibleIntroductionSacrifice has traditionally been conceived of as an act of devotion, performed by a human devotee and offered to a d...
Safed
Eli Yassif
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Safed Introduction Safed (in Hebrew, Tzfat) is a small town in the Upper (northern) Galilee, known only from late antiquity as inhabited by Je...
Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov
Naomi Seidman
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Sarah Schenirer and Bais YaakovIntroductionAmong the most significant developments in 20th-century Orthodoxy was the establishment in the interwar per...
Scholem, Gershom
David Biale
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Gershom ScholemIntroductionGershom Scholem (b. 1897–d. 1982) is generally considered the most important Jewish historian of the 20th century, as well ...
Second Temple Period, The
Steven P. Weitzman, R. Timothy DeBold
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
The Second Temple Period Introduction Although it has its roots before the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians in 586 bce—that ...
Sephardi Jews
Dina Danon
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Sephardi Jewry Introduction While now typically used in common parlance to refer to most Jews of non-Ashkenazi origin, “Sephardi Jewry” denote...
Sexuality and the Body
David Biale
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Sexuality and the Body Introduction Judaism is a religion with a full set of precepts governing the body, from circumcision and menstruation t...
Shlomo Carlebach
Natan Ophir
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Shlomo CarlebachIntroductionRabbi Shlomo Carlebach (b. 1925–d. 1994) was a spiritual guide, charismatic religious leader, and influential composer of ...
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Roman Katsman, Benjamin Frankel
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Shmuel Yosef AgnonIntroductionOn August 8, 1887, Shmuel Yosef was born in Buchach, Galicia (today located in Ukraine) to Shalom Mordechai and Esther C...
Shulhan Arukh and Sixteenth Century Jewish Law, The
Joseph M. Davis
Subject: Jewish Studies »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
The Shulhan Arukh and 16th-Century Jewish Law Introduction Rabbi Joseph Karo (b. 1488–d. 1575—more correctly Caro, as his last name is a form ...
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