Eliezer Schweid

The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture (eBook, PDF)

Idea of Modern Jewish Culture
Redaktion: Levin, Leonard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Eliezer Schweid is Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He has published 40 books in general and specific areas of Jewish thought of all periods, and has commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. He is the recipient of the distinguished Israel Prize and two honorary doctorates. Leonard Levin teaches Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618110381
• Artikelnr.: 56998868

Autorenporträt

Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) was Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He published over forty books in general and specific areas of Jewish thought of all periods, and commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. He was the recipient of the distinguished Israel Prize and two honorary doctorates. Leonard Levin teaches Jewish philosophy at the Academy for Jewish Religion, Yonkers, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Preface. Foreward. 1. Culture as a Concept and Culture as an
Ideal. 2. Tensions and Contradiction. 3. Internalizing the Cultural Ideal.
4. The Underlying Philosophy of Jewish Enlightenment. 5. The Meaning of
Being a Jewish-Hebrew Maskil. 6. Crossroads: The Transition from Haskalah
to the Science of Judaism. 7. The Dialectic Between National Hebrew Culture
and Jewish Idealistic Humanism. 8. The Philosophic Historic Formation of
Jewish Humanism: A Modern Guide to the Perplexed. 9. The Science of Judaism
- Research in Judaism as a Culture. 10. The Science of Judaism, Reform
Judaism and Historical Positivism. 11. A Critique of the Science of Judaism
and the Cultural Ideal of Enlightenment. 12. Accelerated Change and
Revolution. 13. The Vision of Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Political
Zionism. 14. The Pioneering (Halutzic) Culture of the Jewish Labor Movement
in Palestine. 15. Polar Views on Sources of Jewish Culture. 16. Alienation
from Religion and Tradition. 17. The Jewish Folk Culture of Eretz Israel.
18. Judaism as the Totality of National Historic Culture. 19. Sanctity and
the Jewish National Movement. 20. The Dimension of Sanctity in Pioneering
Labor Zionism. 21. The Orthodox Zionist Culture -- Sanctifying Modernity.
22. Judaism as a Culture in the Diaspora. 23. The Secular Jewish Culture of
Yiddish. 24. The Transition from the Hebrew Culture of Pre-state Eretz
Israel to Israeli Culture. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.