Daniel S. Breslauer

Creating a Judaism without Religion

A Postmodern Jewish Possibility

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how some modern and contemporary Jewish thinkers and writers have imagined a Judaism without the boundaries and restrictions that go by the name of "religion." The book offers scholarly insights into some Jewish thinkers-notably Martin Buber and Eugene Borowitz, some Jewish writers-in particular the poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik and the Yiddish author I.L. Peretz.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Judaism
• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780761821045
• ISBN-10: 076182104X
• Artikelnr.: 31201936

Autorenporträt

By Daniel S. Breslauer

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface: Before the Fall Chapter 2 Introduction: Creative
Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber Chapter 3 Theology
Without Religion: Chapter 4 Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and
Responses to the Holocaust Chapter 5 A Possibility for Deconstruction of
Revelation: The Case of Eugene B. Borowitz Chapter 6 Visions of the Messiah
in Poetry, Theology, and Mysticism Chapter 7 Jewish Culture Without
Religion: Chapter 8 Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some
Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural Zionism Chapter 9
Anthological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish Book Chapter 10 Bialik, Agnon,
and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual Quest Chapter 11
Jewish Ethics Without Religion: Chapter 12 Negotiation as Theology:
Reflections on Stories by I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, and Martin Buber Chapter
13 Considerations of Eisik ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I.L.
Peretz, and the Meaning of Circumcision Chapter 14 The Limits of Covenant
Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld, and the Subversive in Peretz
Chapter 15 Selected Bibliography Chapter 16 Index