In His Image: The Jewish Philosophy of Man As Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition.

BELKIN, SAMUEL

Abelard-Schuman

London-New York-Toronto

1960

INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO RABBI DR. JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK.

Samuel Belkin (1911-76) became the second President of New York’s Yeshiva University in 1943 - two years after Rav J.B. Soloveitchik succeeded his father as director of the RIETS Rabbinical School. Although there may have been ideological issues dividing the two as to how—on the administrative level, at least—to achieve the delicate synthesis of Yeshiva and University, there is no doubt that the friendship between the two men was sincere enough and not merely a matter of political accommodation.