This dissertation argues that an assembly of passages of mid-fourth century redaction lays submerged below the textual surface of b. Rosh Hashanah. It claims that the third Babylonian amoraic generation (c. 290–320 C.E.) witnessed a cultural exchange that allowed some early vers…
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This dissertation explores how seeing the congregational rabbi as a surrogate priest is appropriate to the Jewish context and grounded in biblical and historical materials. Beginning with Abraham, viewed as a proto-priest, the dissertation examines the functions performed by Isr…
Rabbi David Twersky was a leading figure in Ukrainian Hasidism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Under R. David's father, Hasidism grew from a small sect to a mass movement. R. David began his career after the death of his father in 1837 by settling in Vasil'kov, whe…
This thesis examines how two Jewish women—Edith Stein, a Jewish nun, and Regina Jonas, a woman Rabbi—crossed over boundaries of religion and gender to express their identities and leadership during the Shoah. Edith Stein converts to Catholicism, but she does not feel that she ha…