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  • The Terror of Evil

    The Holocaust as a Challenge to Religious Thought

    by Avi Sagi, Dov Schwartz ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
    This book explores how modern religious thought and religious Zionism have addressed the profound question of evil, with a particular focus on the Holocaust. It delves into the theological and philosophical challenges posed by absolute, undeniable, and inexplicable primal evil. The awareness of this primal evil serves as the foundation connecting the chapters, which trace the perspectives of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religious Zionism and the Six Day War

    From Realism to Messianism

    by Avi Sagi, Dov Schwartz ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zionism had limited its concern to the protection of specific religious interests, with its representatives having little share in the determination of Israel’s national agenda. Fifty years after it, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Light Through the Crack

    The Meaning of Life in the Face of Adversity

    by Avi Sagi ...
    Translated by Batya Stein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    An epidemic such as COVID-19 challenges life’s very order and meaning, interferes in our relations with others, and breaks apart our routine. It raises many questions in the realms of ethics, politics, theology, psychology, and beyond. Perhaps more than anything else, it prompts us to ponder: what does this encounter with widespread anguish and distress imply about the human self-perception as ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Morality and Religion

    The Jewish Story

    by Avi Sagi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right. In Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story, renowned scholar Avi Sagi marshals the breadth of philosophical and hermeneutical tools to examine this relationship in Judaism from two ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Living With the Other

    The Ethic of Inner Retreat

    by Avi Sagi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book grapples with one of the most difficult questions confronting the contemporary world: the problem of the other, which includes ethical, political, and metaphysical aspects. A widespread approach in the history of the discourse on the other, systematically formulated by Emmanuel Levinas and his followers, has invested this term with an almost mythical quality—the other is everybody else ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Multicultural Challenge in Israel

    by Avi Sagi, Ohad Nachtomy ...
    Delving into Israels multifaceted society, editors Avi Sagi and Ohad Nachtomy, along with their distinguished contributors, explore the many ethnic and religious communities that comprise modern Israel and the ways in which they interact and often misunderstand each other. Detailing both the tensions between Israelis and Arab minorities, as well as issues involving recent immigrants and the ... Read more

    $49.69 USD

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  • Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

    by Jerome E. Copulsky, Dana Hollander, Eric Jacobson, Gregory Kaplan, Daniel Weidner, Daniel Brandes, Sarah Hammerschlag, Zachary Braiterman, Robert Erlewine, Oona Eisenstadt, Brian Britt, Bruce Rosenstock ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • (God) After Auschwitz

    Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought

    by Zachary Braiterman ...
    The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Judaism and the West

    From Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik

    by Robert Erlewine ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers—Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik—to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically ... Read more

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  • The Full Severity of Compassion

    The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

    by Chana Kronfeld ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Yehuda Amichai (1924–2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry has appeared in English. This long-awaited book seeks to fill the gap.Widely considered one of the greatest poets of our time and the most important ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy

    Edited by Michael L. Morgan, Peter Eli Gordon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Jewish Thought

    An Introduction

    by Oliver Leaman ...
    This fresh and contemporary introduction to the Jewish faith, its philosophies and worldviews, explores debates which have preoccupied Jewish thinkers over the centuries and examines their continuing influence in contemporary Judaism.Written by Oliver Leaman, a leading figure in the field, the book surveys the central controversies in Judaism, including the protracted arguments within the religion ... Read more

    $55.99 USD