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David Philipson (August 9, 1862 – June 29, 1949) was an American Reform rabbi, orator, and author. [ 1 ] The son of German-Jewish immigrants, he was a member of the first graduating class of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati .
Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire corpus of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. [1] The term typically refers to literature from the Talmudic era (70–640 CE), [ 2 ] as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writings .
David Charles Kraemer is a professor of Talmud and Rabbinics and the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. [1] As director of the Library, Kraemer "oversees the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere". [2] Kraemer's books include:
David A. Teutsch is professor emeritus at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College where he was president from 1993 to 2001 and the founding director of the Center for Jewish Ethics. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Reconstructionist Kol Haneshamah prayerbook series as well as the three-volume Guide to Jewish Practice .
Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894–1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy [116] Nathanael West, novelist and screenwriter [117] Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Prize winner and author of 57 books [118] Isaac Meyer Wise, author and rabbi [119]
David Ellenson (June 25, 1947 – December 7, 2023) was an American rabbi and academic who was known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism.Ellenson was director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies and visiting professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies at Brandeis University and previously president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR).
David G. Dalin (born 28 June 1949) is an American rabbi and historian, and the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books on American Jewish history and politics, and Jewish-Christian relations. Career
The Babylonian Talmud has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on thirty-seven masekhtot. The Jerusalem Talmud (Yerushalmi) has Gemara on thirty-nine masekhtot. [1] The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology. [2]