subjects: almost never is he a limited specialist, and certainly never a narrow 3 mind
Freehof could have been describing himself, for he too was such an ish eshkolof or renaissance man . The festschrift in his honor, published in 1964, already lists 783 items, and this was 26 years before his death!* He published 21 books all told. In addition to halakhah and responsa, which we shall discuss below, he published books in four main areas:
(1) Literature: Books of Thirty Years, published in 1964, contains the lectures he gave to his modern literature class between 1934 and 1963.
(2) Bible: As a result of his serving as chairman of the Commission on Jewish Education, Freehof published Preface 10 Scripture(1950) along with a series of popular commentaries On Psalms (1938), Job(1958), Isaiah(1972), Jeremiah(1977), and Ezekiel (1978).
(3) Liturgy: In addition to teaching liturgy at HUC, he published Blessing and Praise with Rabbi Israel Bettan(1924), The Small Sanctuary: Judaism in the Prayerbook(1942), The Union Prayerbook(1940-45) as mentioned above; The Union Home Prayerbook(1951); and In the House of the Lord(1951). He also served as editor of the Liturgy Department of The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia in the 1940s.