Artscroll
Artscroll is a line of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Jewish perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., based in Brooklyn, New York.
Artscroll publishes books on a variety of Jewish subjects. They are probably best known for their translation of Siddur, the best-selling "The Artscroll Siddur", the line of Bible commentary works, and their hebrew-English translation of and commentary on the Babylonian Talmud.
This line of books hews to an historical Ultra-Orthodox Jewish perspective accepting midrashic accounts as fact, and ignoring or deriding much modern non-Ultra-Orthodox historical scholarship.
Artscroll has been criticized for editing its books to exclude views and incidents that do not fit in with current Ultra-Orthodox views.
Modern Orthodox disagreements with Artscroll methodology:
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See also: Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
Bibliography
"Truth and Compassion: Essays on Religion in Judaism" Ed. H. Joseph et al. [Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1983]; see the article by Rabbi B. Barry Levy "Our Torah, Your Torah and Their Torah: An Evaluation of the Artscroll phenomenon."
"Judge Not a Book By Its Cover" B. Barry Levy, "Tradition" Vol. 19(1), Spring 1981, p.89-95
An exchange of letters on "Judge Not a Book by its Cover" "Tradition", 1982, pages 370-375.
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Baal teshuva | Baal teshuvah | Bible translation | Bible translations | Meforshim | Pray | Prayer | Shabbat | Shabbos | Siddur
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