Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
An edition of Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era (2014)
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
By David B. Ruderman
Publish Date
2015
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Language
eng
Pages
192
Description:
"This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity"--