Baruch Dayan Ha'emet. He will truly be missed.
I noted it, too! What about me?
(And I was at his funeral, and placed soil onto his 'orôn.)
Baruch Dayan HaEmet
Baruch Dayan ha-Emet. Are any of R' Breuer's books available in English?
mar gavriel:
don't worry, i've linked to you (though this will not add nearly as many hits for you as fred's link would).
jordan:
none of his books are in english and afik only two articles are in egnslih.
for hebrew readers, his megadim articles articles are online, including the timely one on the megilah.
fred:
"I am pleased to say, by the way, that I created the Wikipedia page on Rabbi Breuer"
i am pleased to say that you did so! (just expand it so that english-language readers can learn more about this fascinating hebrew-writing scholar.)
r. breuer's taamei mikra work was important in stimulating interest in jewish circles, but do you know if he actually improved in any way on wickes? (i have not used wickes extensively.)
i am sending you an email.
do you still use the aol email in your profile?
your links to wikipedia and mar gavriel bring me to your own page.
(don't start up with mar.)
There is at least one book by R. Breuer available in English, though not on the subject of masorah or Tanakh. It is "Modernity Within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany" (Columbia U. Press, 1992), translated from the German. I referred to this book some time ago in a response to a post about R. David Tzvi Hoffmann and the controversy surrounding his "Mar Samuel."
Also, in "Modern Scholarship in the Study of Torah," there is a chapter by R. Breuer, "The Study of Bible and the Primacy of the Fear of Heaven: Compatibility or Contradiction?" This is preceded by a piece by R. Shalom Carmy, "Introducing Rabbi Breuer," and is followed by R. Shnayer Z. Leiman's "Response to Rabbi Breuer."
dan klein:
"modernity within tradition" was published by a cousin of the same name (a noted historian), not the recently deceased rav breuer.
in addition to "modern scholarship," his important essay on taame mikra and the decalogue was translated into english a few years ago.
Oops, my mistake. And me a distant relative of the Breuers!
I heard that Rav Breuer z"l once joked about his homonymous cousin, that whatever he agreed with he claimed he wrote, and whatever he disagreed with he hadn't heard of him (or wasn't related, or something like that.)
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