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. Written by Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Professor of Rabbinic Literature at Yeshiva University`s Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, a student and biographer of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, 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. Small bump-marks on jacket spine hinges, jacket spine upper edge slightly worn. Cover bottom corners slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare biography on of the major figures in modern Judaism is in very good condition.