Ignaz Maybaum

by Maybaum, Ignaz; De Lange, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9781571817204
• ISBN10: 1571817204
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976) was one of the foremost liberal Jewish theologians of the post-Holocaust era. His works are now out of print and are only accessible to a small readership. Nicholas de Lange (a close colleague of Maybaum), has selected widely from his writings on modern Judaism, InterfaithStudies, the Holocaust, and Zion. His Introduction examines Maybaum's thoughts against the background of their time, and assesses how much of them is still of value today.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Memories of my Father	ix
Ignaz Maybaum
Introduction	xvii
Judaism in the Modern Age
Friday Evening	3	(6)
Liberal and Reform Judaism	9	(5)
Samson Raphael Hirsch and Abraham Geiger	14	(6)
Jewish Self-Hatred (on Sigmund Freud)	20	(6)
Freud's Vienna	26	(13)
Jewish Migration	39	(6)
Leo Baeck in Terezin	45	(9)
Prophetic Judaism and the 'Halachah'	54	(13)
Trialogue Between Jew, Christian and Muslim
Christian Antisemitism	67	(4)
The Doctrine of the Trinity	71	(4)
The Cross and Galut	75	(3)
The Binding of Isaac	78	(3)
Moriah, Massada, Golgotha	81	(3)
The Year One	84	(7)
The Medieval Passion Play	91	(6)
Islamic Submission to the Law	97	(14)
The Islamic Gown of Jewish Orthodoxy	111	(10)
Vicarious Suffering	121	(6)
Secular and Holy	127	(4)
The Holy Seed	131	(6)
Shylock, the Tragic Champion of the Law	137	(16)
The Third Churban
The Third Churban	153	(3)
The Human Imagination	156	(4)
The 'Tragedy' of Auschwitz	160	(3)
The End of the Middle Ages	163	(3)
The Day of the Lord	166	(4)
The Last Will and Testament of East European Jewry	170	(4)
Fathers and Sons	174	(9)
Apocalypse and Churban	183	(14)
Zion
Zeal	197	(5)
Political Idealism	202	(9)
Diaspora	211	(3)
Help Israel	214	(3)
Bibliography	217	(2)
Sources of Extracts	219	(2)
Biblical Index	221	(2)
Index of Persons	223