Description:
With the social and cultural upheavals of early modern Europe, rabbis had to fight to preserve Jewish tradition. Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi, chief rabbi of Amsterdam, emerged as one of the leading halakhic authorities of the epoch, and the battles he waged would come to define rabbinic norms in the decades that followed.
Brief description: Yosie Levine has been the rabbi at The Jewish Center in New York City since 2008. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University and his Ph.D. from the Bernard Revel Graduate School at Yeshiva University. Before it was published, this book was a winner of the Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award.
Review Quotes:
'Yosie Levine's work represents an admirable contribution that will undoubtedly draw readers back time and again, providing new perspectives on the life and scholarship of Ḥakham Tsevi - a rabbi from the early modern era, certainly; yet foremost, a distinguished posek whose rulings continue to influence Jewish thought and practice today.' Ben Rothke, JLA Review