Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among BooksU of Nebraska Press, 2007 M01 1 - 199 pages To learn was to live, and to learn well was to live well. This was the lesson of both cultures of the Modern Orthodox Jewish world in which Ilana Blumberg was educated, with its commitment to traditional Jewish practice and ideas alongside an appreciation for modern, secular wisdom. |
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Page vi - God! that is not martyrdom! It is the blotting out of a life that has been a protest against wrong. Let me die because of the worth that is in me, not because of my weakness." The rain had ceased, and the light from the breaking clouds fell on Savonarola as he left the Loggia in the midst of his guard, walking, as he had come, with the Sacrament in his hand. But there seemed no glory in the light that fell on him now, no smile of Heaven : it was only that...
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| Title | Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books Book collections on Project MUSE |
| Author | Ilana M. Blumberg |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0803205988, 9780803205987 |
| Length | 199 pages |
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