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Professor Emanuel S. Goldsmith
Classical, Mid-Eastern &
Assian Languages and Cultures

 


 

 

 

Emanuel S. Goldsmith is Professor of Yiddish and Jewish Studies and Rabbi of Congregation M'vakshe Derech in Scarsdale, NY.

 

Recent Publications

Emanuel S. Goldsmith's book was a pioneering achievement in modern Jewish scholarship. It was the first history of the Yiddishist movement. In one master stroke, it enabled the bold, open-minded reader to overcome the myriad prejudices and misconceptions that continue to misguide popular notions about Yiddish and the Yiddish language movement...

Now the historians of events, and (especially) the historians of ideas are supposed to maintain a studious "distance" from their material. That Professor Goldsmith did in the two incarnations of this splendid book. Still, the highly charged nature of the relevant controversies, and the ongoing heated debate about them, left readers wondering: And what does Professor Goldsmith say? In addition to his professorial persona at Queens College, he is after all an eminent Reconstructionist rabbi and a beloved writer and lecturer on Jewish thought...

David Katz
Oxford University.

 

     
The American Judaism of
Mordocai M. Kaplan
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Edited by Emanuel S. Goldsmith, Mel Scult and Robert M. Seltzer
Dynamic Judaism - The Essential Writings of Mordocai M. Kaplan - Edited by Emanuel S. Goldsmith and
Mel Scult
Confluence of Spiritual and Poetic Quests in the writings of H. Leivick -
by Emanuel S. Goldsmith


Recent Publication -

   
"Pages from a
Charred Notebook"

Introduction
"I Keep Recalling" Poems
Introduction
"Events and Movements in Modern Judaism"
Editing (with Patai)
"Laughter Beneath the Forest"
Introductory Essay
 "Yiddish Literature In America
1870 -2000" -

Anthology
 "Jewish People's
University of the Air" -

Author
 "I Really Love Yiddish"-
Mini course

 

 

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