Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
79,2 (1989-1990) 210-220
Schlagwort(e):
Ginzberg, Louis,
;
Jews History 1500-
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
Kurzfassung:
Examines four instances in which Louis Ginzberg (1873-1953), the rabbinic and talmudic scholar, engaged in polemics in defense of Judaism and in answer to antisemitic accusations. In an essay in "The Nation" in 1906, and in an address to the American Humane Association's convention in 1913, he defended Jewish ritual slaughter practices, which had been attacked by both these bodies. In 1913 Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, enlisted Ginzberg's aid in responding to antisemitic testimony given at the Beilis blood libel trial in Russia. In 1919, Ginzberg was asked by Marshall to refute a Polish anti-Jewish propaganda pamphlet by p. Szacki. In general, it was the Bible and Talmud that Ginzberg defended most vigorously in all these cases, believing that the proper illumination of the classical sources of Judaism was the best defense of the Jews. The last two papers were never published.
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