Abstract: In this article, I examine Moses Isserles's (Kraków, 1525–1572) interpretation of the medieval tradition that anticipated the annihilation of the world at the end of history. Originating in a talmudic legend, this tradition was developed and debated in the writings of medieval Sephardic philosophers and kabbalists in various intellectual settings. As I show, Isserles's autodidactic...
Reviewed by: American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change by Emily Sigalow Steven Kaplin Emily Sigalow. American JewBu: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 280 pp. doi:10.1017/S0364009421000374 In the first section of her 2019 American JewBu, Emily Sigalow plots a clear historical trajectory of both American Judaism and American...