Gil Perl (PhD Harvard University) is the Dean of the Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South, a Prek-12 private school serving the Jewish community of Memphis. He has earned rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University and sits on the editorial board of Ha-Yedion, RAVSAK's journal of Jewish education, as well as the advisory council of the Institute for University-School Partnership at Yeshiva University.
Perl’s work reflects an intimate knowledge of the broad range of
books printed in the nineteenth century by the Lithuanian circle of
rabbinic scholars, and shows how those works reflect new interests
and emphases in traditional Torah study. Through careful precise
nuanced textual analysis, coupled with familiarity with the broad
canvas of early modern rabbinic creativity and Lithuanian Haskalah,
Perl elucidates, in particular, the originality and significance of
nineteenth century Lithuanian midrash commentary and provides very
important correctives to the work of scholars who have previously
written on this subject. It is a major contribution to the
field.
*Jacob J. Schacter, University Professor of Jewish History and
Jewish Thought*
“No serious biography of Netziv exists; but Gil S. Perl’s The
Pillar of Volozhin, a revision of the author’s Harvard doctoral
dissertation, not only sheds light on the rabbi’s intellectual
development but also identifies a key historical watershed for the
Litvish intellectual elite.…Much of the contemporary yeshiva
leadership believes it is following Jewish tradition by focusing
narrowly on talmudic learning to the exclusion of other fields of
knowledge and diverse points of view. In this perceptive book, Gil
Perl reveals just how recently this assumption emerged."
*Jewish Ideas Daily*
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