The First Jewish Environmentalist - Jobani, Yuval (Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Educatio
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Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon warned against the mounting dangers of human assault on nature and urged us to open ourselves to nature and re-attune with it. The First Jewish Environmentalist introduces Gordon's ideas and sets them in their historical context, shedding new light on the interconnections between religion, culture, education, and the environment. The book expands Gordon's canonical status beyond the realm of Hebrew culture, and extracts from Gordon's…mehr

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Aharon David Gordon (1856--1922) is increasingly being recognized as the first Jewish environmentalist. Long before global warming became a major threat, Gordon warned against the mounting dangers of human assault on nature and urged us to open ourselves to nature and re-attune with it. The First Jewish Environmentalist introduces Gordon's ideas and sets them in their historical context, shedding new light on the interconnections between religion, culture, education, and the environment. The book expands Gordon's canonical status beyond the realm of Hebrew culture, and extracts from Gordon's philosophy empowerment and inspiration for seekers advocating the protection of our planet.
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Yuval Jobani is Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Education at Tel Aviv University. A scholar of Modern Jewish philosophy, he has held research and teaching positions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Brandeis University, and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His publications include Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in the Public Sphere (winner of the Best Book Award from the Israel Political Science Association), co-authored with Nahshon Perez, and The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza's Philosophy: The God-intoxicated heretic.