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  Torah The Five Books of Moses, also called the Pentateuch, comprising the first section of the Hebrew Bible. Also used more generally to refer to Jewish learning and Jewish texts.

  Tosafists The scholars of the generations after Rashi, including his sons-in-law and grandsons. These rabbis composed the Tosafot (literally, “additional”) commentaries on the Talmud, as well as many important halakhic works.

  Tosefta A collection of rabbinic opinions from the period of the Mishnah that were not included in the Mishnah.

  Tractate The sixty-three subdivisions of the six orders, or main sections, of the Mishnah. Not all of these tractates have a corresponding expansion into the Gemara.

  Trop The musical cantillation used for chanting of biblical texts in the synagogue.

  Troyes The home of Rashi, a city in the Champagne region of France, 118 miles southeast of Paris.

  Worms A city in the Rhineland region of Germany, about twenty-eight miles south of Mainz. Jews had settled in Worms by the end of the tenth century.

  Yeshiva An academy of Jewish learning. From the Hebrew word for “sit,” the yeshiva is named for the practice of sitting and studying, primarily the Talmud.

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Catane, Moshe (Paul Klein). La vie en France au XIe siècle d’après les écrits de Rachi. Jerusalem: Gallia, 1994.

  Darmesteter, Arsène. Les gloses Françaises de Rachi dans la Bible. Paris: Librairie Durlacher, 1909.

  Liber, Maurice. Rashi. Adele Szold, translator. New York: Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2006.

  Pearl, Chaim. Rashi. New York: Grove Press, 1998.

  Rashi Anniversary Volume. New York: American Academy of Jewish Research, 1941. Schwarzfuchs, Simon. Rashi de Troyes. Paris: Albin Michel, 2005

  Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle, ed. Rashi, 1040–1990 Hommage a Ephraim E. Urbach. Paris: Congres Europeen des etudes Juives, 1993.

  Shereshevsky, Esra. Rashi: The Man and His World. Lanham, Md.: Jason Aronson, 1996.

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Elie Wiesel is the author of more than fifty books, both fiction and nonfiction, including his masterly memoir Night. He has been awarded the United States Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the rank of Grand-Croix in the French Legion of Honor, an honorary knighthood of the British Empire, and, in 1986, the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University.

  Translation copyright © 2009 by Catherine Temerson

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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  This translation is based on an unpublished French work by Elie Wiesel, copyright © by Elirion Associates, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Wiesel, Elie, [date]

  Rashi / Elie Wiesel; translated from the French

  by Catherine Temerson.

  p. cm.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-37867-5

  1. Rashi, 1040–1105. 2. Rashi, 1040–1105. Perush Rashi ’al

  ha-Torah. 3. Jewish scholars—France—Troyes—Biography.

  4. Rabbis—France—Troyes—Biography.

  4. Troyes (France)—Biography. I. Title.

  BM755.s6w54 2009

  296.1092—dc22

  [B] 2009009930

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