Saul Bernstein, ‘The Renaissance of the Torah Jew’

Originally published in JJSO 28:2 (1986), pp. 149-50. Saul Bernstein, The Renaissance of the Torah Jew, xiv + 412 pp., Ktav, New York, 1985,$20.00. One of the most remarkable phenomena of the post-war years in world Jewry is the growth of Orthodox Judaism, especially in the United States, when so many had prophesied its speedy demise. Rabbi…