R. J. Werblowsky & Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), ‘The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion’

Originally published in The Times Literary Supplement 4834 (1997), pp. 10-11. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder, editors, THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF THE JEWISH RELIGION. 764pp. Oxford University Press. £80. 0 19 508605 8. When the Hasidic master, Shneur Zalman of Lyady, published in 1796 his brief summary of Jewish mystical theology known as the Tanya,…