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Maimonides.(Book review)
Shofar
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January 1, 2007|
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Maimonides, by Sherwin B. Nuland. New York: Schocken, 2005. 233 pp. $19.95.
The last few years have seen the publication of numerous studies focusing on Maimonides and his oeuvre. The impetus, of course, was the eight-hundredth anniversary of Maimonides' death. Together with the much new and excellent scholarship produced during this time, comes a delightful, popular biography of Maimonides by Sherwin Nuland, an outstanding medical doctor well known for his best-selling book How We Die.
It is no easy task to write a popular biography of Maimonides, and the ...
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