Molly Picon
Lila Perl
Follows the life and career of the Jewish entertainer, who performed in theater, movies, radio, and television for more than eighty years.
Read Time: ~4.7 hr
Between the yeshiva world and modern orthodoxy
by Marc B. Shapiro (1999)
About this book
"Using a great deal of unpublished material, including private correspondence, Marc Shapiro discusses many aspects of Weinberg's life. In doing so he elucidates social and intellectual phenomena of the Jewish world that have so far received little scholarly attention: the yeshivas of Lithuania; the state of the Lithuanian rabbinate; the musar movement; the Jews of eastern Europe in Weimar Germany; the Torah im Derekh Eretz movement and its variants; Orthodox Jewish attitudes towards Wissenschaft des Judentums; and the special problems of Orthodox Jews in Nazi Germany. Throughout, he shows the complex nature of Weinberg's character and the inner struggles of a man being pulled in different directions."--BOOK JACKET.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreBetween the yeshiva world and modern orthodoxy Lead Character
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