Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller: Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi

by Joseph M. Davis and Joseph M. Davis

Book Overview

This study portrays a man and an age. Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller (1578-1654), author of the famous Mishnah commentary Tosafot yom tov, was a major talmudist, a disciple of the legendary Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague, and himself the distinguished chief rabbi of Prague and Cracow. The time in which he lived began as a 'golden age' for the Jews of Prague and the Jews of Poland, an age of prosperity and the rise of Jewish mysticism. During Heller's lifetime,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190411332X
• ISBN13: 9781904113324
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"