Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers

by Cohn-Sherbok; Dan

• ISBN13: 9780415771412
• ISBN10: 0415771412
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-03-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin. Also including fully updated guides to further reading on figures from the middle ages through to the twenty-first century, historical maps and a chronology placing the thinkers in context, this is an essential and affordable one-volume reference to a rich and complex tradition.

Author Biography

Dan Cohn-Sherbok is Professor of Jewish Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Chronological table	p. x
Maps	p. xiii
Isaac Abrabanel	p. 3
Ahad Ha-Am	p. 7
Joseph Albo	p. 11
Hannah Arendt	p. 15
Baal Shem Tov	p. 18
Leo Baeck	p. 22
Walter Benjamin	p. 26
Eliezer Berkovits	p. 29
Martin Buber	p. 33
Hermann Cohen	p. 37
Hasdai Crescas	p. 42
Abraham ibn Daud	p. 47
Jacques Derrida	p. 51
Dov Baer of Mezhirich	p. 54
Simon Dubnow	p. 58
Solomon Formstecher	p. 61
Sigmund Freud	p. 64
Solomon ibn Gabirol	p. 67
Abraham Geiger	p. 72
Gersonides	p. 76
Aharon David Gordon	p. 80
Heinrich Graetz	p. 84
Judah Halevi	p. 88
Theodor Herzl	p. 92
Abraham Joshua Heschel	p. 96
Moses Hess	p. 100
Samson Raphael Hirsch	p. 103
Samuel Hirsch	p. 107
Vladimir Jabotinsky	p. 111
Zevi Hirsch Kalischer	p. 115
Mordecai Kaplan	p. 119
Abraham Isaac Kook	p. 124
Immanuel Levinas	p. 128
Isaac Luria	p. 130
Moses Hayyim Luzzatto	p. 134
Solomon Maimon	p. 138
Maimonides	p. 141
Karl Marx	p. 146
Moses Mendelssohn	p. 149
Nahman of Bratslav	p. 153
Nahmanides	p. 157
Bahya ibn Pakuda	p. 161
Philo	p. 165
Leon Pinsker	p. 169
Judith Plaskow	p. 173
Franz Rosenzweig	p. 176
Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon	p. 180
Gershom Scholem	p. 184
Baruch Spinoza	p. 187
Hayyim Vital	p. 192
Index	p. 197
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