GREAT JEWISH PERSONALITIES IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TIMES

by Dr. Simon- Ed. Noveck ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

An extraordinary collection of profiles of prophets, scholars, statesmen, administrators from the time of Moses down to the 18th century. There is a continuing thread of holiness and greatness in each of these personalities who brought the Jews out of bondage and slavery, physical and intellectual, time and time again, keeping alive the Torah and the Law in face of persecution and that other great threat, prosperity. The three biblical figures- Moses, David and Jeremiah- are well known and various writers have given them humanness and rich individuality. But the others are little known outside scholarly circles and the authors here have enriched the history of the Jews with penetrating studies of rewarding figures, as varied as Akiba of Palestine, Raschi of France, Halevi, Poet of Spain, Saada of Egypt, Maimonides of Spain, Abravenel of Portugal. These were not military warriors but warriors for the spirit and conscience of man, for freedom of thought and worship; they faced persecution and death as they faced life with faith and trust in their religious beliefs. Despite its richness of scholarship, this remains good reading for the layman.

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION