Isadore Twersky (1930–1997)
Autor/a de A Maimonides Reader
Obres de Isadore Twersky
Rabbi Moses Nahmanides (Ramban): Explorations in His Religious and Literary Virtuosity (1983) 8 exemplars
Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra : studies in the writings of a twelfth-century Jewish polymath (1993) 7 exemplars
RAMBAN-EXPLORATIONS IN HIS RELIGIOUS... 3 exemplars
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- Altres noms
- Twersky, Yitzhak Isaac Asher
- Data de naixement
- 1930
- Data de defunció
- 1997-10-12
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Israel
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA - Educació
- Harvard University(BA)
Harvard University(MA)
Harvard University(PhD)
Hebrew College(MA)
Boston Latin School - Professions
- Rabbi
professor
literary scholar
author - Organitzacions
- American Academy for Jewish Research
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Premis i honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship (1989)
- Biografia breu
- The New York Times said in his obituary that Isadore Twersky bridged two worlds, making the study and practice of ancient Jewish traditions the common thread of a life as a Harvard scholar and Hasidic rabbi. In the classrooms and lecture halls of Harvard, where he was Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Jewish Philosophy, Dr. Twersky was a professor personified, a bearded man whose dark suits, occasional tweeds, and dignified manner bespoke his role as an internationally renowned authority on the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides and other medieval thinkers. He taught at Harvard for 30 years, his most popular course being called "Modernation and Extremism." At home in suburban Brookline and in his long black kapote at Congregation Beth David, he was every inch the dynastic Talner rebbe, the spiritual leader of a small Hasidic community his father had led a generation earlier, even as their Twersky ancestors had led congregations in Chernobyl, Ukraine, for centuries. Joseph Hacker characterized Dr. Twersky as "a historian of ideas and a researcher of the intellectual history of the Jews."
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- Obres
- 13
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 443
- Popularitat
- #55,291
- Valoració
- 4.6
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 24