In Simeon the Righteous in Rabbinic Literature: A Legend Reinvented, Amram Tropper investigates the rabbinic traditions about Simeon the Righteous, a renowned Jewish leader of Second Temple times, and
In third-century CE Palestine, the leading member of the rabbinic movement put together a highly popular wisdom treatise entitledTractate Avot. Though Avot has inspired hundreds of commentaries, this
In 1849, the Morning Chronicle, a leading Victorian newspaper, embarked on a social investigation of working class life in England and Wales. Set in the immediate context of concern over Chartism and
