Orthodoxy Awakens: The Belkin Era and Yeshiva University

by Geller, Victor B

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Book description: Jerusalem, Israel: Urim Publications, 2003. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed By Author. This book is a history of the renaissance of Orthodox Judaism in America between the years 1940 and 1975 by an active participant who personally knew its leading fitgures; it tells the story of Rabbi Samuel Belkin and Yeshiva University, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, and the Young Israel movement, institutions with with the author was associated; the book is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to his friend Cornell Capa, the celebrated photojournalist, with whom he was involved in a LIFE magazine photo story on Judaism published in 1955, a story he relates in the book; includes many photographs, including one of Cornell Capa (black cloth with gold lettering, corners very slightly bumped; black & orange dust jacket with photo of Rabbi Belkin on the front, very slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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