,A Charming, Learned, Gay Litvak

A Charming, Learned, Gay Litvak


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies

Author(s): Elliott Horowitz; Elliott Horowitz

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Leadership; History; Jewish Law (Halacha); Conservative Judaism

Type: Report

Coverage: United States United States

Abstract:

The author discusses the personality of Rabbi Louis Ginzberg as manifest in anecdotes from sources including biographies of Isaiah Berlin, Ginzberg's wife Adele, Ginzberg's translator Henrietta Szold, and a biography of Ginzberg himself by Ginzberg's son Eli.