The Sages: Their Concepts and Beliefs (Chazal)
Jerusalem · 1969
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Ephraim E. Urbach
Ephraim E. Urbach
1912 CE–1991 CE · Modern · Włocławek
Professor Ephraim Elimelech Urbach (1912–1991) was one of the foremost academic scholars of rabbinic Judaism. Born in Włocławek, Poland, and ordained in Breslau, he immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1938 and served as a British Army chaplain before joining the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was professor of Talmud from 1953. His masterwork, The Sages: Their Concepts and Beliefs (Chazal), is a landmark synthesis of the worldview of the rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud, and his studies of the Tosafists reshaped the field. He served as president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and received the Israel Prize (1955) and the Bialik Prize (1983).
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Stop 1 of 31912–1934Born
WłocławekולוצלאווקPoland
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Born in Włocławek, Poland, into a Hasidic family.
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