The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 996
Release: 2015-12-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 131647318X

This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.

Who Rules the Synagogue?

Who Rules the Synagogue?
Author: Zev Eleff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190624671

Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis were in full control of America's leading synagogues and large sectors of American Jewish life. How did this shift occur? Who Rules the Synagogue? explores how American Jewry in the nineteenth century was transformed from a lay dominated community to one whose leading religious authorities were rabbis. Zev Eleff traces the history of this revolution, culminating in the Pittsburgh rabbinical conference of 1885 and the commotion caused by it. Previous scholarship has chartered the religious history of American Judaism during this era, but Eleff reinterprets this history through the lens of religious authority. In so doing, he offers a fresh view of the story of American Judaism with the aid of never-before-mined sources and a comprehensive review of periodicals and newspapers. Eleff weaves together the significant episodes and debates that shaped American Judaism during this formative period, and places this story into the larger context of American religious history and modern Jewish history.

Classified List

Classified List
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1920
Genre: Classified catalogs
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Classed List
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1920
Genre: Classified catalogs
ISBN: