Jewish History

A prominent Holocaust survivor and author who lost the will to survive.

Brandeis was also the first high court nominee subject to public hearings.

A history of this iconic institution in American Jewish life.

Addressing the moral question of slavery.

From 1600 to the 20th century.

The preeminent figure of American Modern Orthodoxy, the man known as 'the Rav' ordained thousands of rabbis.

In the early Middle Ages, leading scholars across Europe and North Africa produced different genres of legal writings.

A legal code for the Jews of medieval North Africa and Spain.

Rema's glosses emended and enhanced the Shulchan Aruch.

Maimonides' halachic magnum opus.

As Jewish communities grew throughout the Muslim world, they developed their own rabbinical schools and scholars.