His books included "Hebrew Reborn," "Ezekiel or Pseudo-Ezekiel," "Noah, Daniel and Job" and "The Last Trial," a collection of legends about the sacrifice of Isaac.
From 1929 to 1943, Spiegel taught Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, while also holding the position of librarian.
In 1996 Menahem Schmelzer published a volume entitled Avot hapiyyut (The fathers of the piyyut) from the materials found in Spiegel's literary estate.
[5] His Hebrew Reborn of Jewish men of letters in modern times, is considered a lucid, cultural analysis of the works of the authors it surveys.
The Last Trial, his study of the reworking of the story of the binding of Isaac (Akedah) in the Hebrew liturgy of the 12th and 13th centuries is a notable example of his penetrating approach.
[6][7][8] Largely due to Truman’s urging,[9] the talk was published the following year as a small pamphlet entitled Amos versus Amaziah.17 Dr. Spiegel received an honorary doctorate from JTS in 1973.
[19] 2019 The Shalom Spiegel Institute Summer Seminar in Medieval Hebrew Poetry dedicated to the work of Abraham Ibn Ezra.
[20] 2023 Shalom Spiegel Institute Summer Seminar in Medieval Hebrew Poetry[21] dedicated to the work of Shem Tov b. Joseph ibn Falaquera (ca.
Reprinted from the Harvard Theological Review, vol 29, no 4, Oct. 1931 A prophetic attestation of the decalogue: Hosea 6:5; with some observations on Psalms 15 and 24 to Dr. Stephen Wise on his 60th birthday.