From Text to Context The Turn to History in Modern Judaism

"Although 'From Text to Context' is a compilation of essays written over the past 20 years, the book has remarkable coherence and focus. Even the essays on the 'Sephardic mystique' in Ashkenazic Judaism and the artist Moritz Oppenheim offer fascinating perspectives on the book's main theme....[T]his is a learned, insightful and diverting study of the troubled encounter with history that accompanied the Jewish transition to modernity.:Schorsch, Ismar is the author of 'From Text to Context The Turn to History in Modern Judaism' with ISBN 9780874516647 and ISBN 0874516641.