The Pharisees and other essays

Translated from the German.

The Pharisees. Tradition in Judaism. Judaism in the church. Origin of Jewish mysticism. Greek and Jewish preaching. Two world views compared. The character of Judaism

'Leo Baeck is a representative figure of European Jewry. At one time the leading rabbi in Berlin and a faculty member of the Academy for the Study of Judaism..., he won scholastic renown for his classical studies, his work in the history of Jewish thought, and his studies in early Christianity....His first work, The Essence of Judaism...(1905), is the most important liberal exposition of Judaism....In 1933 a collection of essays was issued under the title of "Paths in Judaism"....The edition of his second volume of essays, "Out of Three Thousand years",...printed in 1938, was destroyed by the Gestapo. Some of ehese essays appear in this volume....'

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