Monday, January 7, 2019

Primary Sources and Syllabus

Paradigms of Modern Jewish Existence - Syllabus 2019

Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem (from: Mendelssohn, Writings on Judaism, Christianity & The Bible)

Nachman Krochmal, Guide of the Perplexed of Time, Chapter 7, Hebrew

The American Declaration of Independence

Israel's Declaration of Independence (Hebrew)

Israel's Declaration of Independence (English)

Mordercai Kaplan, Religion of Ethical Nationhood (American Jewry)
Mordecai Kaplan, Religion of Ethical Nationhood (Zionism)

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Thoughts, reactions, and optional readings

Yehoyada Amir, New Paths towards Christianity and Islam in the Thought of Nachman Krochmal
and Elijah Benamozegh ”, in: Görge Hasselhoff (ed.), Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, pp. 213–238

 

Articles and secondary sources

Secondary Sources:
Jacob Katz: Out of the Ghetto 
Eva Jospe, Reason and Hope, Introduction (about Hermann Cohen)
Yehoyada Amir: The Perplexity of Our Time - Rabbi Nachman Krochmal and Modern Jewish Existence, Modern Judaism, 23, 3 (2003), pp. 264-301 

Aritcles of mine: 
יהוידע עמיר - מבוא למהדורת מורה נבוכי הזמן
Yehoyada Amir, "The Concept of Exile as a Model for Dealing with the Holocaust", in: Steven Katz (ed.), The Impact of the Holocaust on Jewish Theology, NY and London, 2005, pp. 226-247 
Yehoyada Amir, "The General-Human and the Particularistic-Jewish Dimensions of the Holocaust: A Philosophical-Educational Reflection"Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 27, 3 (2013), pp. 157173.   




























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