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Modern Jewish Thought

2010
In the premodern era, a Jewish individual was defined legally, politically, and theologically as a member of the Jewish community. Jewish modernity represents the advent of the modern nation-state and the subsequent shifting of the locus of political power from the corporate Jewish community to the individual Jew.
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Is it Possible to Write a History of Jewish Thought?

Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 2003
AbstractIn the past few years, traditional scholars and would-be innovators have been locked in controversy over the scholarly study of Qabbalah. The field of Jewish philosophical thought, however, has witnessed no such upheavals. This is not to say that no progress has been made: Texts are being rescued from oblivion; philosophical systems are ...
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Some Thoughts on Polish-Jewish Relations

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 1986
This chapter assesses Polish–Jewish relations. The Poles and Jews shared the same lands within the same country for hundreds of years. The overwhelming majority of the Jews of Poland rejected assimilationist tendencies, steadfastly maintaining the primary value of their separate identity, and a significant number of Orthodox Jews preferred actual ...
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Jewish Thought for Jewish Education: Sources and Resources

2011
This entry attempts to illustrate how insights from modern Jewish thought can enrich discourse and reflection on issues of principle in Jewish education. It focuses on two important Jewish educational issues – the issue of education for “spirituality,” and the question of the possible “translatability” of classical Jewish texts to modern readers ...
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Jewish Thought and the Renaissance

1999
A brief survey of the major trends in Jewish rational thought in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe.
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