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Name
  
Shubert Spero


Education
  
City College of New York, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas

Books
  
Holocaust and return to Zion, Aspects of Rabbi Joseph D, New Perspectives in Theolo, Morality - Halakha - and the J

Rabbi Shubert Spero (born September 23, 1923). Rabbi Spero was born in New York City. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S degree at City College of New York and attained an M.A and a PhD in philosophy at Western Reserve University. In 1947 he received smicha and in 1950 became rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1983 with his wife and family he made aliyah to Israel settling in Jerusalem.

Rabbi Spero is currently the Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University and Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio.

He has written extensively on the subjects of halakha, ethics, the Holocaust, Jewish Philosophy and the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Works

  • God in All Seasons (1967)
  • Morality, Halakha, and the Jewish tradition (1983)
  • Holocaust and Return to Zion: a Study in The Jewish Philosophy of History (2000)
  • Aspects of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Judaism: An Analytic Approach (2009)
  • References

    Shubert Spero Wikipedia