Publications for Zev Eleff eleff@htc.edu
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.