Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era

"This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity"--

Year

2020

Language

English

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Editions

3

Pages

192

ISBN

9780295748061

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