A Legacy of Leaders 2
A Legacy of Leaders Volume 2: Biographies of Sephardic Gedolei Hador A Legacy of Leaders Volume 2 by Yehuda Azoulay, published by Israel Book Shop, is a 364-page English hardcover collection of biographical portraits of Sephardic Gedolei Hador across generations, at $26.99 in a 6 by 9 inch format, published in November 2009. Yehuda Azoulay has succeeded in capturing and portraying the greatness and rich heritage of Sephardic Torah leaders from previous generations right down into our times, making this a must-read for Sephardim and Ashkenazim, young and old, and everyone in between. Volume 2 continues the biographical documentation begun in the first volume, bringing additional Sephardic gadol biographies to a readership that has recognized this series as the most comprehensive and readable collection of Sephardic Torah leadership portraits available in English. SKU: IBSL438 Author: Yehuda Azoulay Publisher: Israel Book Shop Format: Hardcover Pages: 364 ISBN-13: 9781600910883 ISBN-10: 1600910882 Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches Published: November 2009 Volume: 2 of 2 Sephardic Torah Leadership: A Rich and Underrepresented Heritage The Sephardic Torah tradition encompasses one of the most distinguished and historically rich streams of Jewish scholarship, stretching from the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry through the expulsion and the centuries of Sephardic communities in North Africa, the Middle East, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, and the Levant, and through the twentieth-century renewal of Sephardic Torah leadership in Israel and the diaspora. The Sephardic Gedolei Hador whose lives Yehuda Azoulay documents in this series include figures whose Torah scholarship, communal leadership, and personal holiness rank among the most significant in all of Jewish history, yet who are significantly less well-known in the Ashkenazi-dominant English-language Jewish book market than their counterparts in the Ashkenazi rabbinic tradition. This relative obscurity is precisely the problem that the...
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