Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East

by Zvi Zohar

Book Overview

Rabbinic Creativity in the Modern Middle East provides a window for readers of English around the world into hitherto almost inaccessible halakhic and ideational writings expressing major aspects of the cultural intellectual creativity of Sephardic-Oriental rabbis in modern times. The text has three sections: Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, and each section discusses a range of original sources that reflect and represent the creativity of major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441133291
• ISBN13: 9781441133298
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"