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“For Truth Is More Precious than Anything Else” Zev Eleff and Shaul Seidler-Feller Bibliography of the Writings of Jacob J. Schacter Menachem Butler Textual Traditions 1. Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on the Messianic Age: Reactions and Controversies through the Ages David Berger 2. A New Paradigm of the Jew/Gentile Relationship: Maimonides’s Analysis of the Miẓvah le-Haḥayoto Ari Berman 3. In the Ecumenical Footsteps of Rabbi Jacob Emden: The Curious Case of Pinchas Lapide Mark Gottlieb 4. Rationalizing Kerei u-Ketiv: Radak’s Methodology in His Biblical Commentaries Naomi Grunhaus 5. “The Law Follows the Lenient View in Mourning”: The History and Reconsideration of a Talmudic Principle Shmuel Hain 6. A Community for the Sake of Heaven: Emden’s Understandings of Christianity and Islam Susannah Heschel 7. Tosafist Collections in the Writings of Ḥayyim Joseph David Azulai (Ḥida): The Case of Tosefot Shittah Ephraim Kanarfogel 8. Grandfather and Grandson: Teachers and Interpreters in Hebrew Ben Sira and Greek Sirach Ari Lamm 9. Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk’s Final Salvo in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy: Ḥarvot Ẓurim Shnayer Leiman 10. The Taboo against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah (1837–1942) Jonathan D. Sarna 11. Twentieth-Century American Orthodox Responses to Living in a Malkhut shel Ḥesed Elana Stein Hain 12. Reception of Malachi’s Temple Critique in Judaism Shlomo Zuckier Memory and the Making of Meaning 13. The Last Trial of Jacob Emden: Community, Memory, Authority Elisheva Carlebach 14. Papering Over an Era of American Orthodox Pragmatism: The Case of College Zev Eleff and Menachem Butler 15. Cultural Memory, Spiritual Critique, and Piyyut Michael Fishbane 16. “A Faithful Home in Israel”? Jewish Dis/Connections in Contemporary American Jewish Literature Sylvia Barack Fishman 17. Who Is Not a Jew? Notes on the Reception of the Principle “Though He Sinned, He Remains an Israelite” Matt Goldish 18. New York Jewish History and Memory: Opportunities and Challenges Jeffrey S. Gurock 19. Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in Early Modern and Modern Europe Debra Kaplan 20. Pilgrims’ Progress? Ḥakham Ẓevi and the History of Visitors to Israel Observing One Day of Yom Tov Yosie Levine 21. Herschel Schacter’s Encounter with Mordecai Kaplan Rafael Medoff (Re)Creating a Usable Past 22. Remember, Research, Commemorate: The (Re)Making of a Holocaust Research Institute Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz 23. Prayer in a Time of Pandemic: Loneliness, Liturgy, and Virtual Community Lois C. Dubin 24. Or Nogah and the Uses of History: Blidstein, Petuchowski, and the Diverse Readings of a Nineteenth-Century Reform Halakhic Text David Ellenson 25. From Rabbiner Doktor to Rabbanit Doctor: Academic Education and the Evolution of Israeli Religious Leadership Adam S. Ferziger 26. Why Was Titus Killed by a Gnat? Reflections on a Rabbinic Legend Steven Fine 27. Anchor to Springboard: Uses and Revaluations of Masorah in Medieval Ashkenaz Talya Fishman 28. Ḥasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: A Reappraisal Benjamin R. Gampel 29. The Slifkin Affair: Contexts, Texts, and Subtexts of Israeli and American Orthodox Responses Benjamin J. Samuels 30. A Guide for Today’s Perplexed? The Changing Face of Maimonidean Scholarship David Shatz 31. The Image of the Gra in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Jeffrey R. Woolf Contributors