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Publications for Zev Eleff eleff@htc.edu

Hebrew Theological College

  • Eleff, Z. (2016). Modern Orthodox Judaism: A documentary history. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

  • Eleff, Z. (2016). [Review of the book Beyond sectarianism: The realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, by A. S. Ferziger]. American Jewish History, 100(3), 444-446. doi:10.1353/ajh.2016.0050

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  • Eleff, Z. (2016). "We must unite on principles!" The letters of Kaufmann Kohler to David Philipson and renewed light on the Pittsburgh Platform of 1885. American Jewish Archives Journal, 68(1), 101-117. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2016). Who rules the synagogue? Religious authority and the formation of American Judaism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

  • Eleff, Z. (2015). Review essay: An American tale. Tradition, 48(1), 106-117. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2014). A far-flung fraternity in a fertile desert: The emergence of rabbinic scholarship in America, 1887-1926. Modern Judaism, 34(3), 353-369. doi:10.1093/mj/kju012

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  • Eleff, Z. (2014). From teacher to scholar to pastor: The evolving postwar Modern Orthodox rabbinate. American Jewish History, 98(4), 289-313. doi:10.1353/ajh.2014.0036

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  • Eleff, Z. (2014). The Orthodox rabbinate and its Chabad revolution. Looking Forward, 2, 39-48. 

  • Eleff, Z. (2013). Between Bennett and Amsterdam Avenues: The complex American legacy of Samson Raphael Hirsch. Tradition, 46(4), 8-27. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2013). The baptism of four little Roxbury girls: Jewish angst in America's religious marketplace during the interwar period. American Jewish Archives Journal, 65(1 & 2), 73-94. This material can be found here.

  • Sarna, J. D., & Eleff, Z. (2013). United States. In D. Biale (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies of Jewish studies. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.  doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199840731-0060

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  • Eleff, Z. (2012). American Orthodoxy's lukewarm embrace of the Hirschian legacy, 1850-1939. Tradition, 45(3), 35-53. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2012). Psychohistory and the imaginary couch: Diagnosing historical and biblical figures. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 80(1), 94-136. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfr105

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  • Eleff, Z. (2012). The wages of criticism. Jewish Review of Books, 8, 50-51. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2011). Jewish immigrants, liberal higher education and the quest for a Torah u-Madda curriculum at Yeshiva College. Tradition, 44(2), 19-34. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2011). The envy of the world and the pride of the Jews: Debating the American Jewish university in the twenties. Modern Judaism, 31(2), 229-244. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2010). Freedom and responsibility: The first Orthodox college journalists and early Yeshiva College politics, 1935–1941. American Jewish Archives Journal, 62(2), 54-88. This material can be found here.

  • Eleff, Z. (2010). Toward an understanding of Rabbi Hayyim Soloveitchik's Zionism. Gesher, 1, 39-52.

  • Eleff, Z. (2010). "Viva Yeshiva!": The tale of the Mighty Mites and the college bowl. American Jewish History, 96(4), 287-305. doi:10.1353/ajh.2010.0027

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  • Eleff, Z. (2009). Living from convention to convention: A history of the NCSY, 1954-1980. Jersey City, NJ: Ktav.

  • Eleff, Z. (2008). Mentor of generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Jersey City, NJ: Ktav.