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Religion without God? Approaches to Theological Reference in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought

Religions, 2019
Recent scholarship on both ancient and modern Judaism has criticized the identification of Judaism as a religion. From the perspective of the modern period, what has remained unaddressed is the very peculiar religion that Jewish philosophers and ...
Cass Fisher
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Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article discusses the main challenges that secularization presented to Judaism and to Jewish thought, and maps the key strategies and central thinkers who responded to this challenge, from the eighteenth century up to the turn of the twenty-first ...
Zohar Maor, Ori Werdiger
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Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

, 2012
Introduction: Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought James A. Diamond and Aaron W. Hughes Part One: Modern Fascinations Chapter One: "Medieval" and the Politics of Nostalgia: Ideology, Scholarship, and the Creation of the Rational Jew Aaron W.
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United Passions: Jewish Modernity and the Quest for Integrity in Paul Mendes-Flohr

Religions, 2022
Over his long and distinguished career as a historian of modern Jewish thought, Paul Mendes-Flohr has followed his great subject, Martin Buber, in striving for unity among the many subjects and spheres of Jewish life in modernity (politics, economics ...
Samuel Hayim Brody
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Contempt for the Whos? or: How to Read Nietzsche Autobiographically after the Death of the Bios

Religions, 2022
This paper examines French philosopher Sarah Kofman’s fractured relationships to her identities as Jew and woman. Active participant in postwar debates surrounding deconstruction and psychoanalysis, acclaimed reader of Freud and Nietzsche, and ...
Joel Swanson
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Yedidyah Ha-Alexandri and the Crisis of the Modern Jewish Age: Philo of Alexandria as an Exemplary Ḥasid in Naḥman Krochmal’s Thought

Religions, 2021
The present article sets out to answer the question of the extent to which Naḥman Krochmal’s reappraisal of Philo of Alexandria in the light of his Jewish faith reflects a deep spiritual crisis that was engulfing the Maskilic world: the encroaching ...
Ze’ev Strauss
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Religious Education and Sacred Study in the Teachings of Rabbi Yitshak Hutner

Religions, 2019
Rabbi Yitshak Hutner (1906–1980) was a remarkable scholar, an enigmatic religious intellectual and a charismatic teacher. Drawing upon his public discourses and his written letters, I argue that Hutner’s vocabulary—which remained rooted
Ariel Evan Mayse
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“God Has Wrapped Himself in a Cloak of Materialism”: Marxism and Jewish Religious Thought in the Early Soviet Union

Religions, 2023
Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union is typically the subject of dichotomous depictions that offer only a superficial rendering of this rich and complex environment. This paper aims to complicate this image by pointing out several religious thinkers
Isaac Slater
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We Spring from that History: Bernard Lazare, between Universalism and Particularism

Religions, 2018
This paper examines the evolution of Jewish identity in the works of writer and critic Bernard Lazare. It suggests that Lazare’s oeuvre elucidates one of the central tensions in modern Jewish thought: the division between those thinkers who use the
Joel Swanson
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Thinking Proleptically: Paul Mendes-Flohr on Intellectual History as Second-Person Dialogue

Religions, 2022
The current article argues that Paul Mendes-Flohr’s turn to address contemporary challenges faced by Jews at large, and Israeli Jews in particular, is proleptic in the sense that it excavates the anticipation of the current intellectual, spiritual and ...
Orr Scharf
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