Admiration and Fear: New Perspectives on the Personality of the Maharal

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Admiration and Fear: New Perspectives on the Personality of the Maharal

Original language description

Rabbi Judah Leva ben Betzalel - the Maharal (ca. 1525-1609) is regarded as one of the key figures of the sixteenth-century rabbinic culture. Yet, given the fragmentary nature of the existing sources, his biography and intellectual profile manifest several unfortunate lacunae. Based on unknown or neglected manuscript and printed sources, this study formulates tentative hypotheses about some of the gaps in our understanding of the Maharal&apos;s attitudes and the reception of his person by his contemporaries. It suggests that the Maharal spent his formative years in the Lublin yeshivah of rabbi Shalom Shakhnag. A ban that the Maharal intended to impose on the rabbinic ordination of candidates of Moravian origin indicates that his move to Prague was perhaps involuntary and explains the reluctance of the lay leaders to elect him as a communal rabbi. Other sources discussed for the first time with regard to the Maharal document that he was both respected and feared even outside the region, for example in Italy. The Hebrew originals of the most important unpublished sources discussed in this study are appended.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-01308S" target="_blank" >GA17-01308S: Pinkas as a Source for the Study of the Government and Internal Politics of the Jewish Communities in Bohemia (17th and 18th Centuries)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Judaica Bohemiae

ISSN

0022-5738

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

5-31

UT code for WoS article

000424554300001

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