This collection is about various topics in Jewish Studies by one of the greatest scholars of the previous century. The subjects span the whole length and breadth of Jewish history and literature, from 'A Hoard of Hebrew Manuscripts in Judaism' to 'The Dogmas of Judaism', and from 'Safed in the Sixteenth Century' to 'Abraham Geiger-Leopold Zunz'. In Encyclopedia Judaica, Meir Ben-Horin says, “Schecter’s Studies in Judaism remain indispensable documents of American Jewish religious Conservatism."
Studies in Judaism is a collection of studies about various topics in Jewish Studies by this important scholar. The subjects span the whole length and breadth of Jewish history and literature, from 'A Hoard of Hebrew Manuscripts in Judaism' to 'The Dogmas of Judaism', and from 'Safed in the Sixteenth Century' to 'Abraham Geiger-Leopold Zunz'.
"Schechter's Studies in Judaism (...) remain indispensable documents of American Jewish religious Conservatism." (Meir Ben-Horin in Encyclopaedia Judaica)
Solomon Schechter (Shneur Zalman; 1847û1915) was born in Romania. He studied at the Berlin Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums and at the University of Berlin. He was Professor of rabbinics at Cambridge University and later Professor of Hebrew at University College, London. He is most famous for his discovery and investigation of the Cairo Geniza, a treasury of ancient book and manuscripts in the synagogue of Fustat, near Cairo. Schechter became president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York in 1902. He is considered the chief architect of Conservative Judaism in the U.S.
