Emet le-Ya‘akov

Zev Eleff is President of Gratz College and Professor of American Jewish History in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than fifty scholarly articles. His most recent book is Dyed in Crimson: Football, Faith, and Remaking Harvard’s America. Shaul Seidler-Feller is a doctoral candidate in modern Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Judaica consultant at Sotheby’s New York. Together with David N. Myers, he coedited Swimming against the Current: Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller.

“In celebration of the immense impact Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter’s work as a rabbi, professor, and scholar has made on the Jewish community, both in America and internationally, Emet le-Ya’akov is a compendium of essays centered around the topic of seeking historical truth and maintaining intellectual integrity. The essays raise poignant questions of historiography and facing uncomfortable truths…”— Tradition

• “For Truth Is More Precious than Anything Else”Zev Eleff and Shaul Seidler-FellerBibliography of the Writings of Jacob J. SchacterMenachem ButlerTextual Traditions1. Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on the Messianic Age:Reactions and Controversies through the AgesDavid Berger2. A New Paradigm of the Jew/Gentile Relationship: Maimonides’sAnalysis of the Miẓvah le-HaḥayotoAri Berman3. In the Ecumenical Footsteps of Rabbi Jacob Emden: TheCurious Case of Pinchas LapideMark Gottlieb4. Rationalizing Kerei u-Ketiv: Radak’s Methodology in HisBiblical CommentariesNaomi Grunhaus5. “The Law Follows the Lenient View in Mourning”: The Historyand Reconsideration of a Talmudic PrincipleShmuel Hain6. A Community for the Sake of Heaven: Emden’s Understandingsof Christianity and IslamSusannah Heschel7. Tosafist Collections in the Writings of Ḥayyim JosephDavid Azulai (Ḥida): The Case of Tosefot ShittahEphraim Kanarfogel8. Grandfather and Grandson: Teachers and Interpreters inHebrew Ben Sira and Greek SirachAri Lamm9. Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk’s Final Salvo in theEmden-Eibeschuetz Controversy: Ḥarvot ẒurimShnayer Leiman10. The Taboo against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the AmericanHaggadah (1837–1942)Jonathan D. Sarna11. Twentieth-Century American Orthodox Responses to Living ina Malkhut shel ḤesedElana Stein Hain12. Reception of Malachi’s Temple Critique in JudaismShlomo ZuckierMemory and the Making of Meaning13. The Last Trial of Jacob Emden: Community, Memory, AuthorityElisheva Carlebach14. Papering Over an Era of American Orthodox Pragmatism: TheCase of CollegeZev Eleff and Menachem Butler15. Cultural Memory, Spiritual Critique, and PiyyutMichael Fishbane16. “A Faithful Home in Israel”? Jewish Dis/Connections inContemporary American Jewish LiteratureSylvia Barack Fishman17. Who Is Not a Jew? Notes on the Reception of thePrinciple “Though He Sinned, He Remains an Israelite”Matt Goldish18. New York Jewish History and Memory: Opportunities andChallengesJeffrey S. Gurock19. Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in EarlyModern and Modern EuropeDebra Kaplan20. Pilgrims’ Progress? Ḥakham Ẓevi and the History ofVisitors to Israel Observing One Day of Yom TovYosie Levine21. Herschel Schacter’s Encounter with Mordecai KaplanRafael Medoff(Re)Creating a Usable Past22. Remember, Research, Commemorate: The (Re)Making of aHolocaust Research InstituteJudith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz23. Prayer in a Time of Pandemic: Loneliness, Liturgy, andVirtual CommunityLois C. Dubin24. Or Nogah and the Uses of History: Blidstein,Petuchowski, and the Diverse Readings of a Nineteenth-Century Reform HalakhicTextDavid Ellenson25. From Rabbiner Doktor to Rabbanit Doctor: Academic Educationand the Evolution of Israeli Religious LeadershipAdam S. Ferziger26. Why Was Titus Killed by a Gnat? Reflections on a RabbinicLegendSteven Fine27. Anchor to Springboard: Uses and Revaluationsof Masorah in Medieval AshkenazTalya Fishman28. Ḥasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: A ReappraisalBenjamin R. Gampel29. The Slifkin Affair: Contexts, Texts, and Subtexts of Israeliand American Orthodox ResponsesBenjamin J. Samuels30. A Guide for Today’s Perplexed? The Changing Face ofMaimonidean ScholarshipDavid Shatz31. The Image of the Gra in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B.SoloveitchikJeffrey R. WoolfContributors