The Rise of Rabbinic Authority and the Fall of the Synagogue

Monday, November 9, 2015, 3:30 pm
Photo of Zev Eleff
Zev Eleff, assistant professor of Jewish history at Touro College and Hebrew Theological College, presents a case study in 19th-century American religious culture. This event is part of the Academica Judaica Lecture Series. Free.
Location: 
Humanities Building, Room 415
Sponsor: 
Jewish Studies Department
Contact: 
Jewish Studies Department
Phone: 
415-338-6075
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Eleff is the author of a number of books and more than 30 scholarly articles. He will publish two books in 2016: Pulpits, Power and Pew: Religious Authority and the Formation of American Judaism, 1816 – 1885 (Oxford University Press) and Modern Orthodox Judaism in America: A Documentary History (The Jewish Publication Society of America).