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ISBN 10: 1565857046 

ISBN 13: 9791565857048

Author: David B. Ruderman

God, Torah, and Israel. These three concepts (i.e., personal belief, the meaning of Jewish ritual acts, and the purpose of continued Jewish existence) have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history. But the last four centuries presented Jewish thinkers with difficult challenges. These lectures address the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought in the past 500 years, identifying such challenges and revealing the ways in which a small group of Jewish thinkers attempted to address these challenges. Read more…

Table of contents:

1. On Studying Jewish History

2. Defining Modern Jewish History and Thought

3. Cultural Transformation in the Italian Ghetto

4. 17th-Century Marranism & Messianism

5. The Challenge of Baruch Spinoza

6. Moses Mendelssohn and His Generation

7. The Science of Judaism

8. Heinrich Graetz: Jewish Historian

9. Abraham Geiger: The Shaping of Reform Judaism

10. The Neo-Orthodoxy of Samson Raphael Hirsch

11. Zecharias Frankel and Conservative Judaism

12. Samuel David Luzzatto: Judaism & Atticism

13. Zionism’s Answer to the Jewish Problem

14. Three Zionist Visions

15. The Jewish Adventure with Socialism

16. Hermann Cohen’s Religion of Reason

17. Leo Baeck’s Mystery and Commandment

18. Martin Buber’s Religious Existentialism

19. Jewish Law: Martin Buber vs. Franz Rosenzweig

20. Mordecai Kaplan and American Judaism

21. Abraham Heschel: Mystic & Social Activist

22. Theological Responses to the Nazi Holocaust

23. Feminist Jewish Theology

24. Current Trends in Jewish Thought

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