Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity
Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Author: Karen Underhill

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2024-06-25

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0253057299

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In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state.

Modern Judaism
Modern Judaism

Author: D. Cohn-Sherbok

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-07-03

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0230372465

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Since the post-Enlightenment, Jews have fragmented into a variety of sub-groups, each with their own religious ideology. This book provides a description as well as a critique of these various Jewish religious groups and offers an alternative model of Judaism based on an assessment of the nature of contemporary Jewish life. As will be seen, modern Jews are deeply divided on a wide variety of issues. Given this situation, no uniform pattern of Jewish existence can be imposed from above, nor is it likely to emerge from within the body of Israel. What is required instead is a philosophy of Jewish autonomy which legitimizes Jewish subjectivity and personal decision-making. This philosophy of Judaism - which is referred to in this study as 'Open Judaism' - provides a new foundation for Jewish life as Jews stand on the threshold of the third millennium.

Between Kant and Kabbalah
Between Kant and Kabbalah

Author: Alan L. Mittleman

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1438413343

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This is the first full-length, systematic study in English of Isaac Breuer, a founder of Agudat Israel, whose intellectual achievements reflected the world of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber in an Orthodox mirror. It sheds light on an often neglected aspect of German Jewry's last phase and reclaims Breuer as a paradigmatic figure in the Jewish encounter with modernity.

The Quest for a Common Humanity
The Quest for a Common Humanity

Author: Katell Berthelot

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-04-11

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 9004201653

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This volume explores the development of the idea of a common humanity for all human beings from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbour, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham ́s sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity.

The Jewish Renaissance and Some of Its Discontents
The Jewish Renaissance and Some of Its Discontents

Author: Lionel Kochan

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780719035357

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On pp. 90-117, "The Task of the Historian, " objects to the tendency to turn the Holocaust into the central focal point of Jewish history and of the Jewish "civil religion." Speaks against attempts of historians and politicians to make the Holocaust a paradigm of pre-Israeli Jewish history and to connect the establishment of the State of Israel with the Holocaust.

The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism
The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism

Author: Dana Evan Kaplan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-08-08

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1139827006

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This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology, and musicology, the book adopts an inclusive perspective on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today. Subsequent chapters include cutting-edge scholarship and original ideas while remaining accessible at an introductory level. A secondary goal of this volume is to help its readers better understand the more abstract term of 'religion' in a Jewish context. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism will be of interest not only to scholars but also to all readers interested in social and intellectual trends in the modern world.

I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture
I. L. Peretz and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture

Author: Ruth R. Wisse

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0295805676

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I. L. Peretz (1852–1915), the father of modern Yiddish literature, was a master storyteller and social critic who advocated a radical shift from religious observance to secular Jewish culture. Wisse explores Peretz’s writings in relation to his ideology, which sought to create a strong Jewish identity separate from the trappings of religion.