In this contemporary classic, every verse in Megillas Eichah is explained in accordance with its Talmudic derivation, expressing the synthesis of Talmud and Tanach.

In 2004, Mayer Gruber?s landmark Rashi?s Commentary on Psalms made one of the 11th-century scholar?s most important works accessible to a larger audience for the first time. The JPS paperback edition of this exceptional volume includes the complete original Hebrew text and acclaimed linguist Mayer Gruber?s contemporary English translation and supercommentary. Fully annotated by Gruber, Rashi?s Commentary on Psalms places Rashi, the most influential Hebrew biblical commentator of all time, in the larger context of biblical exegesis. Gruber identifies Rashi?s sources, pinpoints the exegetical questions to which Rashi responds, defines the nuances of Rashi?s terminology, and guides the reader to use the English translation as a tool to access the original Hebrew text. Gruber?s extensive introduction takes a critical look at Rashi and his enduring legacy.

A collection of previously published essays. Pp. 127-135, "A Vignette of Rabbi Hillel Zeitlin and the Holocaust" [first published in "Tradition" 15 (1975)], present a profile of the Warsaw Rabbi deported to Treblinka in September 1942. Focuses on his written commentaries on the erosion of religious life in the ghetto, and his belief in religious reawakening and messianic redemption as the only way to salvation. Pp. 136-143, "'Who Is a Jew?' in the Vilna Ghetto" ["Tradition" 16 (1967)], comment on fragments from Zelig Kalmanovitsh's "Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna", written up to his death in 1943. Kalmanovitsh referred to and commented on the debates on the "Who is a Jew" question, pointing to the new implications of the issue in the tragic framework of Nazi brutality.

A first attempt to bring scholars and rabbis together around the question of how religious belief in the divine revelation at Sinai can be combined with critical Bible study. The volume contains twenty-one essays by contemporary Jewish academics and thinkers on the relationship between faith and the source-critical study of the Bible.

THE ORTHODOX JEWISH TANAKH TORAH NEVI’IM KETUVIM BOTH TESTAMENTS The Orthodox Jewish Bible is an English language version that applies Yiddish and Hasidic cultural expressions to the Messianic Bible.