Shabbat Reading: Marc Shapiro's Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox

#whatireadovershabbat Marc Shapiro's Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox (University of Scranton Press, 2006)

Rabbi Saul Lieberman, the greatest Talmudist of the 20th century, is virtually unknown in the community that cares most about the Talmud—the Orthodox. That wasn’t always so. How, Shapiro asks, did Rabbi Lieberman go from a revered figure among the Orthodox to one hardly remembered? The answer lies not only in the details of his biography but also in the boundaries that observant American Jews erected between themselves during his lifetime. Whether those boundaries did more harm than good is the question behind the question.