Students, scholars and saints
by Louis Ginzberg
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This book, originally published by the Jewish Publication Society of America in 1928, now contains a new introduction by Jacob Neusner. The book gives the reader some insight into the cultural life of the Jew, by making him acquainted with the bearers of this culture. It was in the Talmud Academies that the spiritual life of the people pulsated, and hence a closer acquaintance with the ideas and ideals of the talmudic scholar will lead to a better knowledge of that life.Tags
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Louis Ginzberg was born in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1873. He began his university studies in mathematics but eventually turned to the study of religion. His doctoral dissertation, which documented the survival of various Jewish elaborations of the Bible in the writings of the Church Fathers, prefigured his later work. He emigrated to show more America in 1899 and became a renowned Judaic scholar. He died in New York City in 1953. show less
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