SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff (b.1937), Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University`s Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, a noted scholar, author and teacher who spent four years studying under Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and and remained very close to him afterwards. RARE monograph on the life and work of Rabbi Eliezer Silver (1882-1968) - the President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada (Agudath Harabbanim), president of the Vaad Hatzala (the rescue committee founded in November 1939 by Agudath Harabbanim to rescue Jews in Europe from the Holocaust), and one of American Jewry`s foremost religious leaders. This book represents the first serious, scholarly attempt to describe and evaluate in depth the activities and viewpoints of one of the major figures in American Jewish Orthodoxy. 215x140mm. 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt spine. Jacket, text block edges and pages slightly yellowing. Jacket spine upper edge and upper corners wrinkled/worn. Spine hinges, edges and rear cover bottom wrinkled. Author`s signed dedication on front whitepage. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare biography on of the major figures in modern Judaism is in very good condition.