Preface

The Goanic Period (to 1050)

The Eleventh Century
Gershom of Mainz • Rashi and his school • Tosafists

The Twelfth Century
Joseph Ibn Migash • Joseph Ibn Plat • Abraham b. Isaac of Narbonne • Maimonides • Abraham Ibn David of Posquière

The Thirteenth Century
Nahmanides • Abraham Maimoni • Meir b. Baruch of Rothenburg • Isaac b. Moses of Vienna and his son • Solomon Ibn Adret

The Fourteenth Century
Asher b. Jehiel • Isaac b. Sheshet Perfet

The Fifteenth Century
Simeon b. Zemah Duran • Solomon b. Simeon Duran • Jacob Weil •Israel Isserlein • Elijah Mizrahi

The Sixteenth Century
David Ibn Abi Zimra • Moses Alashkar •Benjamin Zeev of Arta • Samuel di Medina • Solomon Luria • Moses Isserles • Levi Ibn Habib • Menahem Aazariah da Fano

The Seventeenth Century
Joseph Trani • Joel Sirkes • Meir of Lublin • Leon da Modena • Jair Hayyim Bacharach • Zevi Ashkenazi

The Eighteenth Century
Jacob Emden • Ezekiel Landau • Jseph Ergas • Meir Eisenstadt • Jacob Reischer • Samson Morpurgo • Jacob Popers • Judah Ayash • Aryeh Laib Breslau

The Nineteenth Century
Eleazar Fleckeles • Hayyim Kittsee • Moses Sofer • Abraham Samuel Benjamin Wolf Sofer • Simhah Bunem Sofer • Samuel Ehrenfeld • Moses Schick • Hayyim Halberstam • Joel Ungar • Jacob Ettlinger • Zevi Hirsch Chajes • Joseph Saul Nathanson • Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin • Jacob Saul Elyashar • Joseph Hayyim of Baghdad • Jacob Tennenbaum • Abraham Anakawa • Hayyim Sofer • Marcus Horowitz • Abraham Bornstein • Judah Aszod • Abraham Palaggi • Solomon Kluger

The Twentieth Century
Hayyim Eleazar Spira • Hayyim Isaac Jeruchem • Judah Grünwald • Joseph Rozin • David Hoffman • Amram Grünwald • Menahem Manish Babad • Abraham Menahem Steinberg • Hayyim Mordecai Roller • Judah Laib Zirelson •Mordecai Joseph Breisch • Jehiel Jacob Weinberg • Eliezer Waldenberg • Isaac Jacob Weiss • Moses Feinstein • Ben Zion Uziel • Zevi Ezekiel Michaelson • Abraham Isaac Kook

Summary and Conclusions

Appendix I: Saul Berlin and the ‘Besamim Rosh’
Appendix II: Isaac Lampronti’s ‘Pahad Yitzhak’
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Louis Jacobs, founding rabbi of the New London Synagogue, was a renowned scholar with an international reputation as a lecturer. He was the author of The Jewish Religion: A Companion (1995) and of many other distinguished books, several of them published by the Littman Library, including Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1999), Hasidic Prayer (paperback 1993), and Theology in the Responsa (paperback 2005), as well as an edition and translation of Zevi Hirsch Eichenstein’s Turn Aside from Evil and Do Good (1995). He died in 2006.

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