For some twenty years from the late 1960s, and thereafter following a brief pause, representatives of British Jewry’s religious orientations... Læs mere
Class of ’31 is a beautifully written memoir from a German Jew determined to learn the fate of his former classmates during the Third Reich. Jessel returned to Germany in 1945 as an American soldier hoping to understand how his friends survived World War II.
Michah Gottlieb explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries including Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Leo Strauss.
An examination of the Reconstructionist philosophy of Mordecai M Kaplan. It deals with the defence of Kaplan against several serious critics. It provides a critical analysis of the... Læs mere
Addresses three broad themes in Jewish intellectual history: Jewish approaches to cultures external to Judaism and... Læs mere
The authors read some of the classics in the Russian novelistic tradition against a critique of the Lukacs-Bakhtin view of epic, all the while... Læs mere
Explores the construction of the Jew's physical and ontological body in Russian culture as represented in literature, film, and non-literary texts since the 1880s.
Making extensive use of Yiddish-language books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and other materials, this... Læs mere
Explores important questions in both modern and premodern Jewish philosophy regarding the idea of faith. This book presents various manifestations of the concept of faith in... Læs mere