Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate

With the social and cultural upheavals of early modern Europe, rabbis had to fight to preserve Jewish tradition. Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi, chief rabbi of Amsterdam, emerged as one of the leading halakhic authorities of the epoch, and the battles he waged would come to define rabbinic norms in the decades that followed.

Publisher:

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Pages:

296

Date Published:

2024-11-28