Samuel K. Mirsky Memorial Volume: Studies in Jewish Law, Philosophy, and Literature/ Sefer zikaron li-Shelomoh Kalman Mirski; mehkarim be-halakhah uve-agadah, be-sifrut ha-dorot uve-vahashevet Yisra'el.
New York: Sura Institute for Research, Jerusalem, Yeshiva University, 1970. Hardbound. Octavo, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo, 286, 318 pp., ink-stamps, soiling to the rear free endpaper. Very Good-. Item #82208
Sections in English and Hebrew. Articles in the English section are "Covenantal Imperatives," Walter S. Wurzberger, "Law and Justics in Rabbinic Jurispridence," Jose Faur, "A Rational Conception of Mitzvot," Appel, "Study and Prayer: Their Relative Value in Hasidism and Mitnagdism," Norman Lamm, "Hirsch's Torot and Maimonides' Sefer Hamada," Noah H. Rosenbloom, "The World Outlook of Rabbi Kook," David S. Shapiro, "The Relationship Between Science and Judaism," Alvin Radkowsky, "Zemah Hai: An 18th Century Manuscript," Norman E. Frimer, "Biblical Exegesis of Maimonides in Jewish Scholarship," Jacob I. Dienstag, "Triennial Haftorot," Marvin Luban, "Attributes of Prophecy in the Rabbinic View," Norman M. Bronznick, "The Fictive Jew in the Literature of England, 1890-1920," David Mirsky, "Esther-Echoes in Mishle Sendabar," Morris Epstein, "Chaim Selig Slonimski: 19th Century Populizer of Science," Isaac Goldberg, "The Strange Path of an Apostate Jew," Asher Siev, "Samuel K. Mirsky's Contribution to Jewish Educational Historiography," William W. Brickman.
Articles in Hebrew are "Shibole Ha-Leket: The Order of Benedictions," Misky, "Responsa of the Gaonim," Moshe Hershler, "Laws of Mourning in the Commentary of R. Samuel ben Hofni Gaon," Aaron Greenberg, "Fragments of a Commentary by a Disciple of Nahmanides on Tractiates Yoma and Sukkot," Azriel Rosenfeld, "Exegesis of Proverbs XXXI, 10-31 by R. Abraham Tamakh," Leon A. Feldman, "Completion of Exegesis og the Book of Ruth by R. Isaac Aramah," Bialik M. Lerner, "Pesikta of R. Huna and R. Kahana in Yalkut Talmud Torah," Elazar Hurwitz, "Midrash Ha-Hafetz of R. Zechariah Ha-Rofe," Meir Havazelet, "A Historical and Methodological Exposition of Aggadic Sources," Yehuda L. Bohrer, "Decline of the Hegemony of the Sura Academy in the Ninth Century," Raphael S. Weinberg, "The Siddur of the Semak with Commentary of the Author of the Mkhim," Mendel Lewittes, "Maimonides' View of Prophecy," Eliezer Goldman, "Isaac Hirsch Weiss: Historican and Scholar," Meyer Herskovics, "Rabbi A.I. Kook and H.N. Bialik: Their Views on Halakhah and Aggadah," Yehoshua B. Be'ery, "Aspects of the Writingd and Scholarship of Rabbi S.K. Mirsky, "An Autobiography," Mirsky, "My Father, my Father..." David Mirsky, "Rabbi and Teacher," Louis Bernstein, "Reminiscences," Rochelle Levinthal, "Bibliography: The Writings of Rabbi S.K. Mirsky, Arie Strikovsky.
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