Introduction

Rabbis of our Time is a biographical book which contains several dozen portraits of rabbinical authorities of modern and recent times, from both the contemporary generation of rabbis and earlier generations of rabbis who lived in the twentieth century. The book is also focused on centres of current Judaism and Jewish thinking – particularly the State of Israel (and the British Mandate of Palestine before 1948) and the United States, but it also partly covers other important centres of Judaism, such as Europe (especially Eastern Europe) before the Second World War.