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Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0874415810
Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.
Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253114764
"MIchael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai.... It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith."Â -- Rabbi Samuel Karff "This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." -- Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman "This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." -- Ethics "... rigorous history of modern Jewish thought... " -- Choice Is Judaism a timeless, universal set of beliefs or, rather, is it historical and contingent in its relation to different times and places? Morgan clarifies the tensions and dilemmas that characterize modern thinking about the nature of Judaism and clears the way for Jews to appreciate their historical situation, yet locate enduring values and principles in a post-Holocaust world.
Author : David Harry Ellenson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827611832
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.
Author : Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005329060
Author : Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 9780742546066
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa? Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the low-down on which books are worth the reader's while. Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers represents a decade of the author's experience teaching students ranging from undergraduate age to their seventies. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes.
Author : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691160139
Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality - or a mixture of all of these? This title tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period - and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164676374
Author : David Ellenson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827612143
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.
Author : Elliot N. Dorff,Louis E. Newman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827608627
How do we use power once we?ve gained it? Is it completely for our individual benefit, or do we use it to help our neighborhoods, or society at-large? What kinds of decisions must CEOs and business owners make regarding suppliers and customers? How should bosses treat workers? Teachers treat students? Parents treat children? Government treats citizens? Power dynamics affect people on a political level, a social level, and a deeply personal level as well. The newest volume in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series examines these dynamics and includes essays by such fine contributors as U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, NBC Universal Television-West Coast President Marc Graboff, and author and scholar James Diamond.
Author : Svante Lundgren
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158684105X
Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.
Author : Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438418575
The book is divided into three sections. The first provides a general historical overview for the Jewish thought that follows. The second summarizes the variety of basic kinds of popular, positive Jewish commitment in the twentieth century. The third and major section summarizes the basic thought of those modern Jewish philosophers whose thought is technically the best and/or the most influential in Jewish intellectual circles. The Jewish philosophers covered include Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Mordecai Kaplan, and Emil Fackenheim. The text includes summaries and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Author : Daniel Rynhold,Michael J. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107109032
Presents Soloveitchik's philosophy as a conceptual response to Nietzsche's critique of religion that brings Nietzsche's life-affirming sensibility to halakhic Judaism.
Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827609983
Noted educator, author, and speaker Eugene Borowitz delivers the fruits of his scholarship with grace in this new addition to the JPS Scholar of Distinction series. Gathered in this single volume are 33 essays covering the themes of modern Jewish theology, education, the history of Reform Judaism in America, Jewish law, ethics, and religious dialogue. This collection will appeal to a wide audience, including rabbis; scholars; and readers of religion, modern Jewish thought, and liturgy.
Author : Susan A. Handelman
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253206790
Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739174470
Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with Chancellor Arnold Eisen’s postscript, position Jewish thought within the dynamics and possibilities of contemporary Jewish culture. These diverse essays in Jewish thought re-imagine cultural space as a public and sometimes contested performance of Jewish identity, and they each seek to re-enliven that space with reflective accounts of cultural meaning. How do Jews imagine themselves as embodied actors in America? Do cultural obligations limit or expand notions of the self? How should we imagine Jewish thought as a cultural performance? What notions of peoplehood might sustain a vibrant Jewish collectivity in a globalized economy? How do programs in Jewish studies work within the academy? These and other questions engage both Jewish thought and culture, opening space for theoretical works to broaden the range of cultural studies, and to deepen our understanding of Jewish cultural dynamics. Thinking Jewish Culture is a work about Jewish cultural identity reflected through literature, visual arts, philosophy, and theology. But it is more than a mere reflection of cultural patterns and choices: the argument pursued throughout Thinking Jewish Culture is that reflective sources help produce the very cultural meanings and performances they purport to analyze.