List Books » An American Orthodox Dreamer: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School
Authors: Seth Farber
ISBN-13: 9781584653387, ISBN-10: 1584653388
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
SETH FARBER received his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University and his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University. He is the founder of Ma'ayan and ITIM: The Jewish-Life Information Center. He has taught at the graduate schools of Touro College and the Overseas School at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He lives in Raanana , Israel, with his wife, Michelle, and their three children.
The first full-scale historical treatment of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the leading figure in twentieth-century American Jewish Orthodoxy.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Jewish Education in Boston before 1930 | 10 |
2 | Rabbi Soloveitchik's Initial Involvement in Jewish Education in Boston, 1930-1941 | 28 |
3 | The Emergence of the Maimonides School, 1937-1945 | 46 |
4 | Coeducation and Women Studying Talmud at the Maimonides School | 68 |
5 | The Development of Other Orthodox Schools in New England, 1945-1953 | 88 |
6 | The Evolution of the Maimonides School, 1950-1961 | 106 |
7 | From the Maimonides School to the Maimonides Community | 135 |
Epilogue | 149 | |
App | The Maimonides School Song | 155 |
Notes | 157 | |
Bibliography | 181 | |
Index | 195 |