Swimming Against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller – Hardcover-Fast Shipping

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Shaul Seidler-Feller (Editor),
David N. Myers (Editor)

Swimming against the Current comprises essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller. These articles, like the honoree, challenge intellectual convention and accepted wisdom, focusing on four categories: Bible and Talmud, Jewish Thought and Theology, Modern Jewish History and Sociology, and Zionism and Jewish Politics.

Author Biography

Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with Sharon Liberman Mintz and David Wachtel, he coedited The Writing on the Wall: A Catalogue of Judaica Broadsides from the Valmadonna Trust Library.

David N. Myers holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he directs the Luskin Center for History and Policy. He is the author or editor of fifteen books in the field of Jewish history.

Number of Pages: 446Dimensions: 1 x 9.21 x 6.14 INPublication Date: April 14, 2020