The early acharonim: biographical sketches of the prominent early rabbinic sages and leaders from the fifteenth-seventeenth centuries

Hersh Goldwurm

Mesorah Publications, 1989 - Bibles - 252 pages

Biographical sketches of 300 great sages and leaders from the 15th-17th centuries. A panoramic range of biographies of great men from all Jewish communities such as Arizal, R' Yosef Caro, Maharsha, R' Menashe ben Yisrael as Jewish life moved eastward.

Contents

• Publishers Preface: 11
• Turkey Greece: 17
• Poland and Lithuania: 25

Bibliographic information

• Title: The early acharonim: biographical sketches of the prominent early rabbinic sages and leaders from the fifteenth-seventeenth centuries; ArtScroll history series
• Author: Hersh Goldwurm
• Editor: Hersh Goldwurm
• Publisher: Mesorah Publications, 1989
• ISBN: 0899064884, 9780899064888
• Length: 252 pages
• Subjects: Bibles / Other Translations / General; Biography; Biography & Autobiography / General; History; Jewish scholars; Judaism; Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789; Rabbis; Religion / Holidays / Jewish; Religion / Judaism / General; Talmud