The 80 books posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2020
Here is the list of the 80 books that I posted on JewishBookWorld.org in September 2020. The image above contains some of the covers. The bold links take you to the book’s page on...
Tagged: Benjamin E Fisher
Amsterdam’s People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century by Benjamin E Fisher
The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adults...
