📚 Rabbis

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The teachers of the law: Talmudic argument made biography, responsa literature and community life.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rabbis in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Rashi	Maurice Liber	1906	15
Sefer ha-toladot	Avraham Ḥanokh Glitsenshṭain	1967	11
Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman	Martin Buber	1920	9
Toward a meaningful life	Simon Jacobson	1995	9
Luḥot zikaron	Bernhard Friedberg	1897	7
-- Ḳore ha-dorot	David Conforte	1746	6
Toldot adam	Ezekiel Feivel ben Zeʾev Wolf	1800	6
Ṭuv Mitsrayim	Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon	1907	6
A Backdoor to Heaven	Lionel Blue	1979	6
The holy thief	Mark Borovitz	2004	6
Megilat toldotehem shel bene Landa ha-kohanim	Dov Landaʼu	2007	6
Sipurim noraʼim	Yaʻaḳov Ḳadanir	1912	5
Igrot ha-Reʼiyah	Abraham Isaac Kook	1961	5
The Rabbi's blessing	Hersh Livazer	1980	5
ha- Rabi R. Tsevi Elimelekh mi-Dinov	Natan Ortner	1987	5
German Rabbis in British Exile	Astrid Zajdband	2016	5
Sefer ha-zikhronot	Bernard Natanson	1875	4
Intimate glimpses of the rabbi's career	Henry Berkowitz	1921	4
Affirmations of Judaism	Joseph H. Hertz	1927	4
The speculative merits of common stock warrants	Sidney Fried	1951	4
Dor deʻah	Yekuthiel Aryeh Kamelhar	1951	4
ha- Raʾah	Yoav Elstein	1961	4
Mara de-Arʻa Yiśraʾel	Yosef Mosheh Sofer	1969	4
Tormented master	Arthur Green	1979	4
ʻOlamot she-ḥarvu	Joseph Scheinberger	1980	4
Holy Brother	Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum	1997	4
Reb Chatzkel	Yitzchak Kasnett	2007	4
Tfila Leʻani	Yosef Elneḳaṿeh	2008	4
Rogue Rabbi	Jerry Steinberg	2012	4
Rabbiner in der Provinz	Janusz Spyra	2018	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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