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He was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on '' Talmud Yerushalmi'' (the Jerusalem Talmud) and his legendary 6 volume (plus one volume index)''The Legends of the Jew s,'' which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of Midrash research. ''Legends of the Jews'' is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature. Ginzberg had an encyclopedic knowledge of all rabbinic literature, and his masterwork included a massive array of aggadot. However he did not create an anthology which showed these aggadot distinctly. Rather, he paraphrased them and rewrote them into one continuous narrative that covered four volumes, followed by two volumes of footnotes that give specific sources. See Jewish Folklore and Aggadah . Professor Ginzberg wrote some 450 articles for the '' Jewish Encyclopedia ,'' some later collected in his ''Legend and Lore.'' He was an important Halakhic authority of the Conservative Movement in North America; for a period of ten years (1917-1927), he was virtually ''the'' halakhic authority of this movement. He was also founder and president of the American Academy of Jewish Research. Many of his halakhic responsa are collected in ''The . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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