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Jewish Homiletics
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Exile in Amsterdam
Exile in Amsterdam is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fascinating Jewish communities in early modern Europe: the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira (ca. 1596-1660). Morteira, the leading rabbi of Amsterdam and a master of Jewish homiletical art, was known to have published only one book of fifty sermons in 1645, until a collection of 550 manuscript sermons in his own handwriting turned up in the Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest. After years of painstaking study from microfilms and three trips to Budapest to consult the actual manuscripts, Marc Saperstein has written the first comprehensive analysis of the historical significance of these...
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The Message of Judaism
Excerpt from The Message of Judaism: Sermons Preached at the West London Synagogue My first volume of sermons, The Ideal in Judaism, appeared more than thirteen years ago. In the interval only one addition has been made to the small number of Jewish homiletical works intended for English readers. I refer to Mr. Israel Abrahams and Mr. Claude Montefiore's valuable Aspects of Judaism. There would thus seem to be room for a further addition, and I have accordingly yielded to the persuasions of my friends and decided to offer the present volume to the public. The sermons here given have necessarily been chosen from a large number of discourses. I have tried to make the selection as varied as pos...
