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{es} Iser Ginzburg. El Talmud. Buenos Aires: Gleizer, 1937.

Translated by Salomón Resnick from the original Yiddish ed. (1910).

2nd ed. 1943 -- 3rd ed. 1946 -- Repr. México, D.F.: Berbera Editores, 2003 & 2006.

Abstract

Intro to the Talmud, Its Origins and Development. One of the first works to introduce the study of the Talmud in the hispanic world.

"El metodo para estudiar el Talmud debe ser por encima de todo cientifico y objetivo y tiene que ajustarse a una perspectiva historica y geografica, es decir, que debe senyalar cuando y donde se ha ido tejiendo el proceso de su genesis. El Talmud no debe ser alabado ni censurado, no hay que ensalzarlo hasta el exceso como algo enteramente sagrado y sublime, como un dechado de etica y moral de amor a los hombres y a los pueblos, y tampoco hay que condenarlo como obra demoniaca, como coleccion perversa y secreta que predica el odio contra los no judios y que esta repleta de groserias y de ignorancia, de supersiticiones y hasta de elementos pornograficos, conforme lo han hecho los libelistas y antisemitas de todos los tiempos."--

About the Author

"GINZBURG, ISER (1872–1947), Hebrew and Yiddish journalist, short story writer, and editor. Ginzburg was born in Develtov (Russia), and as a youth became influenced by the ideals of the *Haskalah. He settled in the U.S. in 1893, and graduated from Cornell University Medical School in 1900. Influenced by radical politics, he contributed articles to American-Yiddish publications, including the Fraye Arbeter Shtime and Tsukunft, and was on the staff of the Forverts. Ginzburg also remained active as a Hebrew-language journalist, contributing to publications such as Hatoren and Hadoar. He wrote on contemporary problems and reviewed books dealing with Jewish religion, literature, and history. His major works are Der Talmud,Zayn Antshteyung un Antviklung ("The Talmud, Its Origins and Development," 1910); Di Antshteyung fun Kristntum ("The Origin of Christianity," 1917); Yidishe Denker un Poeten in Mitlelter ("Jewish Thinkers and Poets in the Middle Ages," 2 vols., 1918–9); Maimonides (1935)." <Encyclopedia.com>

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