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Isadore Twersky (1930–1997)

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Juifs et judaïsme de Languedoc (1977) — Col·laborador — 9 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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English text of commentaries of Maimonides. Portions on "judgements" include section on "Inheritance" for instance.
 
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Kamerow | May 28, 2007 |

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13
També de
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Membres
443
Popularitat
#55,291
Valoració
½ 4.6
Ressenyes
1
ISBN
24

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