The Rebbe's Daughter: Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood - Hardcover

Shapiro, Malka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0827607253 ISBN 13: 9780827607255

Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY, 2002

Synopsis

Malkah Shapiro grew up in Poland, the daughter of a noted Hasidic master. The Rebbe’s Daughter tells her story: a rare glimpse of the world of the Hasidic Jew in pre-World War I Eastern Europe. This is a learned text, filled with biblical, talmudic, kabbalistic, and hasidic allusions and direct quotations, demonstrating that, in contrast to the stereotype of traditional Jewish girls’ education at the turn of the century, the author was blessed with a thorough education in Judaic classics. Shapiro’s tale, translated and presented in Rabbi Polen’s capable hands, is poetic and sensitive, providing a rich and inviting history for its readers.

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About the Author

Translated from the Hebrew, Edited, and with an Introduction by Nehemia Polen, Associate Professor of Jewish Thought at Boston's Hebrew College. Rabbi Polen received his Ph.D. from Boston University and was ordained an Orthodox rabbi at the Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore. He has served as a congregational rabbi for 23 years, in addition to teaching at Harvard University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Edition details

• Publisher: JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827607253
• ISBN 13: 9780827607255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304