They made their souls anew / Andre Neher ; translated by David Maisel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neher, André.

Series:

SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

Standardized Title:

Ils ont refait leur ame. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Essence, genius, nature.

Judaism.

Judaism--20th century.

Wolfskehl, Karl, 1869-1948--Religion.

Wolfskehl, Karl.

Bloch, Ernst, 1885-1977--Religion.

Bloch, Ernst.

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951--Religion.

Schoenberg, Arnold.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 179 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an original, philosophical discussion in which André Neher relates the lives of prominent nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jews to traditional Jewish thought on issues of assimilation, the Holocaust, and liberal intellectualism.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""OPENING CHORDS""; ""Prodigal Sons of Assimilation""; ""The Vertical Irruption""; ""The Challenge of the Holocaust""; ""The Challenge of Eretz Israel""; ""Content""; ""Part One: DIALECTIC OF THE JEWISH CONDITION""; ""The Knots and the Tensions""; ""The ""Anti"" and Its Masks""; ""The ""Meta"" and Its Morphoses""; ""Part Two: THE SITUATION OF BIBLICAL MAN""; ""The Ontological Psychodrama""; ""The Typological Sociodrama""; ""The Prophetical Metadrama""; ""Part Three: FROM DENIAL TO REAFFIRMATION""

""The Variants of Dis-assimilation"" ""The Challenge Accepted""; ""The Returners from Marxism""; ""The Pilgrim of Hope: Ernst Bloch""; ""From the Temptation of the Cross to the Star of Redemption: Franz Rosenzweig""; ""From Baptism to Kol Nidre-Arnold Schonberg""; ""Kol Nidre""; ""Back Matter""; ""GLOSSARY OF HEBREW TERMS""; ""SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Translation of: Ils ont refait leur ame.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-172) and index.

ISBN:

9781438414362

1438414366