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{{Short description|American rabbi (1906–1980)}}
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'''Yitzchak Hutner''' ({{langx|he|יצחק הוטנר}}; 1906{{snd}}November 28, 1980), also known as '''Isaac Hutner''', was an American [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[rabbi]] and [[rosh yeshiva]] (dean).

Originally from [[Warsaw]], Hutner was the long-time dean of [[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York, an older institution that grew under his leadership. Hutner's pedagogic style was a blend of the [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] and [[Misnagdim|Misnagdic]] elements of his own family's origins. His discourses, called ''ma'amarim'', contained elements of a [[Talmud]]ic discourse, a [[Tish (Hasidic celebration)|Hasidic Tish]] and a philosophic lecture. Although his title was rosh yeshiva, Hutner's leadership style more closely resembled that of a [[rebbe]] who expected fealty from his followers.

In his later years, Hutner established [[Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok]] in [[Jerusalem]], which is named after his own magnum opus. On one of his trips there, Hutner's plane was seized by [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] terrorists in the [[Dawson's Field hijackings]], which he survived.

== Early life ==
Hutner was born in [[Warsaw]], [[Congress Poland|Poland]], to a family with both [[Ger (Hasidic dynasty)|Ger]] [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] and non-Hasidic [[Lithuanian Jews|Lithuanian Jewish]] roots. As a child he received private instruction in [[Torah]] and [[Talmud]].{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} As a teenager he was enrolled in the [[Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka)|Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania]], headed by [[Nosson Tzvi Finkel (Slabodka)|Nosson Tzvi Finkel]], where he was known as the "Warsaw Illui" (Genius of Warsaw).<ref name="Kook">Gerber, Alan Jay (August 5, 2015) [https://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/Ravs-Kook-and-Hutner-zichronum-livracha,6236 "Ravs Kook and Hutner, zichronum livracha"], ''The Jewish Star''. Retrieved October 22, 2020.</ref> His younger sister was [[Rachela Hutner]] (1909–2008).

In 1925, having obtained a solid grounding in Talmud, Hutner joined a group from the Slabodka yeshiva that established the [[Hebron Yeshiva]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]]. He studied there until 1929,<ref name="Kook"/> narrowly escaping the [[1929 Hebron massacre]] because he was away for the weekend. Hutner then returned to Warsaw to visit his parents.<ref name="Kook"/> He then moved to Germany, to study philosophy at the [[University of Berlin]], where he befriended [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]]<ref name="Soloveitchik">[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-soloveitchik "Joseph Soloveitchik (1903-1993)"], ''Jewish Virtual Library''. Retrieved October 22, 2020.</ref> and [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]],<ref name="Synoptic">{{cite journal |last1=Goldberg |first1=Hillel|date=Winter 1987 |title=Rabbi Isaac Hutner: A Synoptic Interpretive Biography|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23259487|journal=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought|volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=18–46 (29 pgs) |jstor=23259487|access-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref> two future rabbinical leaders then studying in Berlin. In 1932, he authored a book called ''Torat HaNazir''.

In 1933, Hutner married Masha Lipshitz in [[Kobryn]]. She was born in [[Slutsk]] and raised in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSM1-DQRZ-R?i=1689&cat=988724|title=FamilySearch: Sign In|website=[[FamilySearch]]}}</ref> That same year, the couple traveled to Mandatory Palestine, where they remained for about a year, and completed his research and writing of his ''Kovetz Ha'aros'' on [[Hillel ben Eliakim]]'s commentary on ''[[midrash]] [[sifra]].''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tzadikim |url=https://dailyzohar.com/tzadikim/906-Rabbi-Yitzchok-Hutner |access-date=2025-06-29 |website=dailyzohar.com}}</ref>

== Rabbinic and teaching career ==
[[File:Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Gur Aryeh Institute - 01.jpg|thumb|New building of [[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]]. The building was constructed after Hutner's death.]]
In March 1934 Hutner moved to the United States<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24NT-XLN|title=FamilySearch: Sign In|website=[[FamilySearch]]}}</ref> (his wife having preceded him by six months)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24VC-K7J|title=FamilySearch: Sign In|website=[[FamilySearch]]}}</ref> and settled in [[Brooklyn]], where Hutner joined the faculty of the [[Rabbi Jacob Joseph School]]. Sometime between 1935 and 1936 he was appointed office manager of the newly established high school division of the [[Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]] known as [[Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin]]. 

In 1940, after receiving permission from the rosh yeshiva, Yaakov Moshe Shurkin, he began to give a class to the 4th year of the post high school program.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} Founded in 1904, it was the oldest elementary yeshiva in Brooklyn. Over the years he built up the yeshiva's post-high school [[beth midrash]] division and became Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin's senior [[rosh yeshiva]] (dean). In this effort he also received the help of [[Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz]] who headed Brooklyn's [[Yeshiva Torah Vodaas]]. Hutner was able to construct an environment that produced young Talmudic scholars in the model of their compatriots in Eastern Europe. By 1940 he had established a post-high-school beth midrash with hundreds of students.<ref name="Religious">{{cite journal |last1=Mayse |first1=Ariel Evan |title=Religious Education and Sacred Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Yitshak Hutner |journal=Religions |date=15 May 2019 |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=327 |doi=10.3390/rel10050327|doi-access=free }}</ref>

At Chaim Berlin, students were allowed to combine their yeshiva study with afternoon and evening classes at college, mainly [[Brooklyn College]] and later [[Touro College]]. Hutner took great pride in the secular accomplishments of his students insofar as they fit into his vision of a material world governed by the principles of a spiritual Torah way of life. Thus, many alumni of Hutner's yeshiva have attained success as attorneys, accountants, doctors, and in information technology.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} One of his closest disciples, [[Israel Kirzner]], is an [[economist]] who edited Hutner's written works, ''Pachad Yitzchok''. Many of Hutner's disciples earned [[doctorate]]s, often with his blessing and guidance. This includes his daughter and only child, [[Bruria David]], who obtained her [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] at [[Columbia University]]'s department of [[philosophy]] as a student of [[Salo Wittmayer Baron|Salo Baron]]. She subsequently founded and became the dean of [[Beth Jacob Jerusalem]], a prominent Jewish women's seminary that caters to young women from [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] families in the United States. Her dissertation discussed the dual role [[Zvi Hirsch Chajes]] as both a traditionalist and ''[[Haskalah|maskil]]'' (follower of the [[Age of Enlightenment|enlightenment]]). The list also includes [[Ahron Soloveichik]] (law) rosh yeshiva, [[Aharon Lichtenstein]] (literature) rosh yeshiva, [[Yitzhak Aharon Korff]] (law, international law and diplomacy), and [[Yehuda (Leo) Levi]] (physics) professor and rector. 

In the 1950s, Hutner established a ''[[kollel]]'' (post graduate division for married scholars) to continue their in-depth Talmudical studies. This school, [[Kollel Gur Aryeh]], was one of the first of its kind in America. Many of his students became prominent educational, outreach, and pulpit rabbis. He stayed in touch with them and was involved in major communal policy decision-making as he worked through his network of students in positions of leadership.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Hutner established [[Yeshiva Pachad Yitzchok]] in [[Har Nof]], Jerusalem, which he named for his book of the same name.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} He died in 1980, and was buried in the [[Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery]] in [[East Jerusalem]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://harhazeisim.org/notables/ |title=Notables |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=harhazeisim.org|publisher=International Committee of Har HaZeitim|access-date=October 22, 2020 |quote=Yitzchok Hutner, rosh yeshivas Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Brooklyn, New York}}</ref>

=== Methodology ===
Hutner's methodology and style was complex, controversial, and difficult to pigeonhole. While placing great emphasis on intellectually penetrating Talmudic study and analysis, emotionally he veered towards the Hasidic-style, and more-so than his Lithuanian-style colleagues reared as [[Misnagdim]] could tolerate. Ultimately though, he saw himself more as a traditional [[Lithuanian Jews|Litvish]] rosh yeshiva.<ref name="5TJT">Gordon, Yochanan (March 19, 2019) [http://www.5tjt.com/rabbi-hutner-and-the-rebbe/ "Rabbi Hutner And The Rebbe"], ''Five Towns Jewish Times''. Accessed July 31, 2022.</ref> 

The core of Hutner's synthesis of different schools of Jewish thought was rooted in his studies of the teachings of [[Judah Loew ben Bezalel]] (1525–1609) a scholar and mystic known as the ''Maharal of [[Prague]]''. Various pillars of Hutner's thought system were likely the works of the [[Vilna Gaon]] and [[Moshe Chaim Luzzatto]]. He would only allude in the most general ways to other great ''mekubalim'' (mystics) such as the [[Baal Shem Tov]], the ''[[Isaac Luria|Ari]]'', [[Shneur Zalman of Liadi]], [[Mordechai Yosef Leiner]] of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters, as he did with the works of [[Kabbalah]] such as the [[Zohar]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hyperleap.com/topic/Yitzchok_Hutner|title=Yitzchok Hutner}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Hutner initiated a number of changes in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin that differed greatly from the ''[[Mussar movement|mussar]]'' (ethics) yeshiva practice in Slabodka. He abolished the half-hour learning session in ''mussar'' and replaced it with one of ten or fifteen minutes.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

Hutner viewed secular studies as essential for attending college, learning a profession and becoming self-supporting. He obtained, together with Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, a charter from the [[University of the State of New York|New York State Board of Regents]] to set up a combined yeshiva and college. However, this plan was dropped at the insistence of [[Aharon Kotler]].{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Hutner developed a style of celebrating [[Shabbat]] and the [[Jewish holiday]]s by delivering a type of discourse known as a ''ma'amar''. It was a combination of Talmudic discourse, [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] celebration (''[[Tish (Hasidic celebration)|tish]]''), philosophic lecture, group singing, and when possible, like on [[Purim]], a ten-piece band was brought in as accompaniment. Many times there was singing and dancing all night. All of this, together with the respect to his authority that he demanded, induced in his students an obedience and something of a "heightened consciousness" that passed into their lives transforming them into literal Hasidim of their rosh yeshiva, who in turn encouraged this by eventually personally donning Hasidic garb (''levush'') and behaving like something of a synthesis between a rosh yeshiva and a [[rebbe]]. He also instructed some of his students to do likewise.<ref name="Religious"/>

== Relationships with other rabbis ==
During his stay in Palestine, Hutner visited [[Abraham Isaac Kook]], the first [[chief rabbi]] of Palestine, to whom he was distantly related.<ref name="Kook"/> Hutner eventually became a member of the non-Zionist [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] [[Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah]] (Council of Torah Sages) of [[Agudath Israel of America]] following his immigration to the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kaplan |first1=Lawrence |date=Fall 1980 |title=Rabbi Isaac Hutner's "Daat Torah Perspective" on The Holocaust: A Critical Analysis|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23258776 |journal=Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=235–248 (14 pgs)|jstor=23258776 |access-date=October 22, 2020}}</ref>

Hutner's work ''Pachad Yitzchok'' contains no overt reference to Kook. A few of  Hutner's early students recall Hutner's lengthy comments regarding Kook. [[Eliezer Waldman]] said that Hutner told them that "Rav Kook was 20 times as great as those who opposed him".<ref>[R. Waldman as interviewed by Ari Shvat, Mar. 29, 2016, 19 Adar II 5776.]</ref> Similarly, Moshe Zvi Neria heard Hutner say that "if I would not have met Rav Kook, I would be lacking 50% of myself".<ref>[Chayei HaReiya, Tel-Aviv 1983/5743, p. 258]</ref>

While staying in Berlin, Hutner developed a friendship with [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson]]<ref name="Synoptic"/> and [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]].<ref name="Soloveitchik"/> Hutner referred to Soloveitchik as a ''[[gadol]]'' (foremost Torah scholar of the time)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-10-07|title=Looking Before And After – Yudaica|url=http://media.www.yucommentator.com/media/storage/paper652/news/2005/05/16/Yudaica/Looking.Before.And.After-951249.shtml}}</ref> and to Schneerson as ''[[tzadik]] hador'' (righteous one of the generation), while at other times saying some negative things about the latter.<ref name="5TJT"/> Nevertheless, the three maintained close personal relations throughout their lives, though each differed markedly in Torah ''[[hashkafa]]'' ([[weltanschauung]]), developing a unique bridge and synthesis between the [[Eastern Europe]]an world-view and a [[Western culture|Western European]] way of thinking. This enabled them to serve successfully as spiritual leaders after each of them immigrated to the United States of America.<ref name="Soloveitchik"/>

Citing an anonymous source, Hillel Goldberg reports that Hutner became a fierce critic of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic group and the "personality cult built up around" Schneerson.<ref name=Goldberg1989p79>Goldberg, Hillel. ''Between Berlin and Slobodka: Jewish transition figures from Eastern Europe'', Ktav Publishing House, 1989, {{ISBN|978-0-88125-142-5}}, p. 79: "Rabbi Hutner relentlessly sustained a biting critique of the Lubavitcher movement on a number of grounds…", p. 187 footnote 41: "Rabbi Hutner was opposed to the personality cult built up around the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and to the public projection of both the Rebbe and the Lubavitch movement, by the movement, through public media-print and broadcast journalism, books, film, and the like."</ref> Hutner purposefully moved up his [[Hanukkah]] ''ma'amar'' to preempt his students from attending Schneerson's [[19 Kislev|Yud Tes Kislev]] [[farbrengen]].<ref name="5TJT"/> Still, Hutner corresponded regularly with Schneerson throughout his lifetime on a variety of ''[[Halakha|halakhic]]'' (Jewish law), Hasidic and kabbalistic subjects, and occasionally sought his blessing.<ref>Some of this correspondence has been published in Igros Kodesh, Kehot 1986–2008 Volumes 7- pp. 2, 49, 192, 215, 12- pp. 28, 193, 14- pp. 167, 266, 18- pp. 251, 25- pp. 18–20, and 26- p. 485</ref><ref>Mibeis Hagenozim, S.B. Levine, Kehot 2009, pp. 88–98, where copies of Hutners' actual letters are included alongside the relevant section, and his criticism is explained.</ref> Hutner also had several lengthy private meetings with Schneerson.<ref>Mibeis Hagenozim, S.B. Levine, Kehot 2009, p. 88</ref>

Hutner appointed Soloveitchik's younger brother, whom he had tutored in [[Warsaw]], [[Ahron Soloveichik]] (later to head his own yeshiva in [[Skokie, Illinois|Skokie]] near [[Chicago, Illinois]]), as head of his own Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Ahron Soloveichik completed a [[Doctorate]] in [[law]] at [[New York University]] at the same time that he lectured in Hutner's Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin.

In the early 1940s, Hutner asked a friend from Slabodka, [[Saul Lieberman]], to become a dean-Talmudical lecturer in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin. Lieberman instead accepted an offer from the [[Jewish Theological Seminary of America]] (JTSA), the seminary of [[Conservative Judaism]].

Hutner had a number of disagreements with some of the religious scholars who taught in his yeshiva. These disputes were usually not over ideology, but about positions in the school. He eased out many of the older rabbis who were his contemporaries in favor of his disciples. Rabbis Prusskin (a first cousin to his wife), Goldstone, Shurkin, Snow, [[Avrohom Asher Zimmerman]] and others are among them. Though Hutner was, by all accounts, quite steadfast in his opinions, he was not above begging forgiveness from those he had slighted, even when they had initiated attacks on him,<ref>Hutner, Yitzchok. ''Pachad Yitzchok'', Gur Aryeh, 2007, Vol.9, p. 273</ref> and adopting a conciliatory tone.<ref>Hutner, Yitzchok. ''Pachad Yitzchok'', Gur Aryeh, 2007, Vol.9 pp. 283, 291</ref>

Hutner appointed [[Hebron Yeshiva|Slabodka yeshiva]] educated [[Avigdor Miller]] as the ''[[mashgiach ruchani]]'' (spiritual mentor and supervisor) of the yeshiva. After the yeshiva relocated to Far Rockaway, New York in the 1960s, Miller resigned from his position due to the difficulties a daily commute from Brooklyn entailed.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

==TWA hijacking==
In the late 1960s he began to visit Israel again, planning to build a new yeshiva there. On 6 September 1970, he and his wife, daughter, and son-in-law [[Yonasan David]] were returning to New York on [[Trans World Airlines|TWA]] Flight 741 when their flight was [[Dawson's Field hijackings#TWA Flight 741|hijacked]] by the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]] Palestinian terrorist organization.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/information-here-meager.html|title=Information Here Meager|author=Emanuel Perlmutter|date=September 23, 1970}}</ref> The terrorists freed the non-Jewish passengers and held the Jewish passengers hostage on the plane for one week, after which the women and children were released and sent to [[Cyprus]]. The hijacked airplanes were subsequently detonated. The remaining 40-plus Jewish men – including Hutner, David, and two students accompanying Hutner, Meir Fund and Yaakov Drillman – and male flight crew continued to be held hostage in and around [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]; Hutner was held alone in an isolated location while Jews around the world prayed for his safe release. The terrorists tried to cut off his beard, but were stopped by their commanders. Hutner was reunited with the rest of the hostages on 18 September, and was finally released on 26 September and flown together with his family members to [[Nicosia]], Cyprus. Israeli [[Knesset]] Member [[Menachem Porush]] chartered a private plane to meet the Hutners in Nicosia, and Willie Frommer, a former student, gave him his own shirt and ''[[Tallit#Tallit katan|tallit katan]]'', since Hutner's ''tallit'', ''[[tefillin]]'', shirt, jacket and hat had been confiscated during his three-week ordeal. On 28 September Hutner and his group were flown back to New York via Europe, and were home just in time for the first night of [[Rosh Hashana]].<ref>Bin-Nun, Dov and Ginsberg, Rachel. "He Swallowed My Papers To Save Me". ''[[Mishpacha]]'', 14 September 2011, pp. 34–43.</ref>

== Published work ==
In 1938 Hutner published a short booklet of ''halakhic'' decisions sourced in the Sifra but not cited in the [[Babylonian Talmud]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hebrewbooks.org/41263|title=HebrewBooks.org Sefer Detail: קונטרוס -- הוטנר, יצחק|website=www.hebrewbooks.org}}</ref> Many years later, he published what is considered to be his ''magnum opus'', which he named ''Pachad Yitzchok'' ("Fear [of] Isaac", meaning the God whom [[Isaac]] [had] feared). He called his outlook ''Hilchot Deot Vechovot Halevavot'' ("Laws [of] 'Ideas' and 'Duties [of the] Heart'") and wrote in a poetic modern-style [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] reminiscent of his original mentor Abraham Isaac Kook's style, even though almost all of Hutner's original lectures were delivered in [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]].<ref name="Religious"/>

== Notable students ==
[[File:Bruriah and Rav Yitzchok Hutner.jpg|thumb|Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner with his daughter Rebbetzin [[Bruria David]]]]
Among Hutner's notable students are first and foremost his only daughter Rebbetzin Dr. [[Bruria David]] (1938–2023) the founder of the [[Beth Jacob Jerusalem]] seminary for young Jewish women in Israel. Rabbis [[Yisroel Eliyahu Weintraub|Yisroel Eliyah Weintraub]], and Feivel Cohen, a noted Posek. Another was the author [[Shlomo Carlebach (scholar)|Shlomo Carlebach]], who was appointed as the ''mashgiach ruchani'' at the Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, but who split with Hutner on policy matters in the 1970s. They were both [[the Holocaust|Holocaust]] survivors whom Hutner took upon himself to raise as his own "sons" together with others in similar circumstances. Hutner also gave [[semikhah]] to [[Shlomo Carlebach (musician)|Shlomo Carlebach, the musician]], during the days that the latter was still with Lubavitch.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Other students included rabbis [[Yonasan David]] (his son-in-law) and [[Aharon Schechter]], his successors as rosh yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin; [[Aharon Lichtenstein]], son-in-law of Joseph B. Soloveitchik and rosh yeshiva of [[Yeshivat Har Etzion]] in Israel; Rabbi [[Aharon Feldman]], Rosh Yeshiva of [[Yeshivas Ner Yisroel]] and a member of the [[Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview with Rabbi Aharon Feldman |url=https://www.maxraskin.com/interviews/rabbi-aharon-feldman |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Interviews with Max Raskin |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Pinchas Stolper]] of the [[Orthodox Union]] and founder of [[NCSY]] who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement; [[Yaakov Feitman]], prominent rabbi, past President of the Young Israel Council of Rabbis and disseminator of Hutner's views;<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 1977|title=Rav Hutner's view on the Holocaust|url=https://agudah.org/the-jewish-observer-vol-12-no-8-october-1977chesvan-5738/}}</ref> [[Shlomo Freifeld]] who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for [[baal teshuva]] students in the world; [[Joshua Fishman]], past leader and executive Vice President of [[Torah Umesorah]] the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools; [[Yaakov Perlow]], the Novominsker [[Rebbe]] of [[Boro Park]]; [[Yitzhak_Aharon_Korff]], the Zvhil-Mezbuz Rebbe of Boston and Jerusalem, and [[Noah Weinberg]] founder and head of [[Aish Hatorah]] as well as his brother [[Yaakov Weinberg]] of [[Yeshiva Ner Yisrael: Ner Israel Rabbinical College|Ner Israel Yeshiva]] in Baltimore.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

== Works ==
=== Works about Hutner ===
* ''An Inner Life: Perspectives On The Legacy of Harav Yitzchok Hutner zt"l'' by Rebbitzen Bruriah David, translated by Rabbi Shmuel Kirzner (Gur Aryeh Institute For Advanced Jewish Scholarship, 2024)
* ''Dershowitz Family Saga: A Century and a Half of Jewish Life in Poland, Through America, and Into Israel'' by Zecharia Dor-Shav (Dershowitz) (Skyhorse Publishing, 2022, {{ISBN| 1510770232}})
* ''Rabbi Hutner and Rebbe'', by Chaim Dalfin (Jewish Enrichment Press, 2019, {{ISBN|0997909935}})
* ''Between Berlin and Slobodka: Jewish Transitional Figures from Eastern Europe'' by Hillel Goldberg (KTAV Publishing House, 2010, {{ISBN|1602801355}})
* "[https://asif.co.il/wpfb-file/%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%93%D7%9F-%D7%91%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%9E/ ORTHODOX THEOLOGY IN THE AGE OF MEANING: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RABBI ISSAC HUTNER]" by Alon Shalev (Hebrew Phd Thesis) 
=== Works based upon Hutner's writings ===

* ''Pachad Yitzchok: Selected Ma'Amarim of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner on Shabbos and the Yamim Tovim'', adapted by Eliakim Willner (Artscroll Mesorah Publications, 2024, {{ISBN|9781422640715}})
* ''Shabbos in a New Light: Majesty, Mystery, Meaning: Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner Sefer Pachad Yitzchak'' by Pinchas Stolper (David Dov Foundation, 2009, {{ISBN|1600910661}})
* ''Chanukah in a New Light: Grandeur, Heroism and Depth as Revealed Through the Writings of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner ZTZK"L'' by Pinchas Stolper (Israel Bookshop, 2005, {{ISBN|1931681767}})
* ''Purim in a New Light: Mystery, Grandeur, and Depth as Revealed Through the Writings of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner'' by Pinchas Stolper (David Dov Publications, 2003, {{ISBN|1931681309}})
* ''Living Beyond Time: The Mystery and Meaning of the Jewish Festivals: Includes 20 Essays Based on the Teachings of Hagaon Harav Yitzchok Hutner ZTZ"L'' by Pinchas Stolper (Shaar Press, 2003, {{ISBN|1578197449}})

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