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Studies in Judaism, First Series
Author: Solomon Schechter
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America
Published: 1911
Source: Project Gutenberg
Copyright: Public domain

THE essays published in this volume under the title of Studies in Judaism have been written on various occasions and at long intervals. There is thus no necessary connection between them. If some sort of unity may be detected in the book, it can only be between the first three essays—on the Chassidim, Krochmal, and the Gaon—in which there is a certain unity of purpose. The purpose in view was, as may easily be gathered from the essays themselves, to bring under the notice of the English public a type of men produced by the Synagogue of the Eastern Jews. […]

(from the introduction)