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Eliezer Schweid
This volume combines an analytical narrative of ultra-Orthodox responses to the Holocaust and the foundational creators of American Jewish thought through the mid-twentieth century.
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A thorough inside narrative and analysis of the seminal thinkers, religious and secular, of the Yishuv, 1900-48-Brenner, Gordon, Ya'ari, Katznelson, Jabotinsky, Kaufmann, Kook, Hirschensohn, Bialik, Amiel, Maimon, Alterman, Sadan, and…
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This volume features Eliezer Schweid’s most original essays and an interview with him. Together they express his fundamental outlook: the faith of a secular Jew, articulating responsibility toward one’s neighbor…
This book provides a standard reference of the major medieval Jewish philosophers, as well as an eminently readable narrative of the course of medieval Jewish philosophical thought, presented as a…
Presented here is a systemized worldview of how the sequence of time is structured through mitzvot, symbols, prayers, as well as weekly festival and holiday Bible readings and study.
This study analyzes the writings of Rabbi Haim Hirschensohn, a Hebrew cultural pioneer who laid the foundation for the Zionist enterprise. His writings focused on finding a philosophical basis that…
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The fundamental book of Eliezer Schweid is a modern interpretation of the Bible as narrative and law which can reopen the dialogue of contemporary Jews with the Bible, from which…
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An interpretation of The Bible as narrative and law that can reopen the dialogue of Jews with The Bible, from which a dynamic Jewish culture can continue to draw its…
The vast majority of intellectual, religious, and national developments in modern Judaism revolve around the central idea of Jewish culture . This book is the first synoptic view of these…
A modern interpretation of the Bible as narrative and law that can reopen the dialogue of contemporary Jews with the Bible, from which a dynamic Jewish culture can continue to…
Helps us grasp the potential for seeing radically fresh messages in this oldest of books, the Bible. This book also helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative…
This text focuses on some of the main ethical and spiritual problems raised by the Holocaust. It addresses the views and moral dilemmas of prominent Jewish thinkers and leaders, then…
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A comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of modern Jewish thought, Volume 2 (of 5) covers the major thinkers of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish religious movements and the east-European Haskalah, with extensive primary source…
A comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical developments. Volume 1 (of 5) covers…
Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely regarded as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era. In Siddur Hatefillah he…
The last generation of German Jewish philosophers-the best known (Buber, Rosenzweig, Baeck, Strauss, Scholem) and the less known (Breuer, Birnbaum, Klatzkin, Guttmann)-are thoroughly explicated here with generous primary text citations…
Per publisher’s email on 4/7/2016: The chapters of this book are taken from different publications, some of them already translated into English and some translated especially for this volume. The…
Hebrew University Professor Emeritus and Israel Prize recipient Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) is widely regarded as one of the greatest historians of Jewish thought of our era. In Siddur Hatefillah, he…
