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Fifty key Jewish thinkers / Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
LIBRA BM750 .C57 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohn-Sherbok, Dan.
- Series:
- Routledge key guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rabbis--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Jewish scholars--Biography.
- Jewish scholars.
- Jewish philosophers--Biography.
- Jewish philosophers.
- Zionists--Biography.
- Zionists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 207 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Summary:
- Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.Also including fully updated guides to further reading on figures from the middle ages through to the twenty-first century, historical maps and a chronology placing the thinkers in context, this is an essential and affordable one-volume reference to a rich and complex tradition.
- Contents:
- Isaac Abrabanel 3
- Ahad Ha-Am 7
- Joseph Albo 11
- Hannah Arendt 15
- Baal Shem Tov 18
- Leo Baeck 22
- Walter Benjamin 26
- Eliezer Berkovits 29
- Martin Buber 33
- Hermann Cohen 37
- Hasdai Crescas 42
- Abraham ibn Daud 47
- Jacques Derrida 51
- Dov Baer of Mezhirich 54
- Simon Dubnow 58
- Solomon Formstecher 61
- Sigmund Freud 64
- Solomon ibn Gabirol 67
- Abraham Geiger 72
- Gersonides 76
- Aharon David Gordon 80
- Heinrich Graetz 84
- Judah Halevi 88
- Theodor Herzl 92
- Abraham Joshua Heschel 96
- Moses Hess 100
- Samson Raphael Hirsch 103
- Samuel Hirsch 107
- Vladimir Jabotinsky 111
- Zevi Hirsch Kalischer 115
- Mordecai Kaplan 119
- Abraham Isaac Kook 124
- Immanuel Levinas 128
- Isaac Luria 130
- Moses Hayyim Luzzatto 134
- Solomon Maimon 138
- Maimonides 141
- Karl Marx 146
- Moses Mendelssohn 149
- Nahman of Bratslav 153
- Nahmanides 157
- Bahya ibn Pakuda 161
- Philo 165
- Leon Pinsker 169
- Judith Plaskow 173
- Franz Rosenzweig 176
- Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon 180
- Gershom Scholem 184
- Baruch Spinoza 187
- Hayyim Vital 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415771405
- 0415771404
- 9780415771412
- 0415771412
- OCLC:
- 77270867
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