Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era - The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy

"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"--

About the author

David B. Ruderman is Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of modern Jewish history at the University of Pennsylvania.

Product details

• Authors: David B Ruderman, David B. Ruderman
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780295748061
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74806-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Stu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous