アーサー・ハーツバーグ

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ラビ・アーサー・ハーツバーグ（Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 1921年6月9日 - 2006年4月17日）はアメリカの歴史家。

アメリカのユダヤ教徒社会を代表する知識人であり、保守派ユダヤ教のラビ。
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Hertzberg, was 5 when he left Europe with his parents in 1926, recalled that as a teenager in an [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] [[Jew]]ish neighborhood in [[Youngstown, Ohio]], he would not accept the notion that the literary world of [[Talmud|talmudic]] learning, the [[kabbalah|kabbalistic]] books and the writing of the [[Hasidic Judaism|chasidim]] were less worthy as compared to the "[[Iliad]]," the "[[Odyssey]]" or [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s "[[The Divine Comedy|Inferno]]." His father was an Orthodox [[rabbi]] trained in [[Eastern Europe]], who taught Arthur to appreciate the richness of the Talmud and the other great works of [[Judaism]]. Although Hertzberg would later stray from his Orthodox upbringing and be ordained as a [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]] rabbi, he "never used my 'heresy' as the excuse to prefer the majority culture to my own." He has been married to the former Phyllis Cannon since [[1950]]. They are the parents of two daughters.
His love of Judaism and the Jewish texts is at the core of his controversial life as a rabbi, scholar, educator and Jewish communal leader. Over the course of his 50 plus year career, Rabbi Hertzberg has served as a congregational rabbi, president of both the American Jewish Policy Foundation and the [[American Jewish Congress]], vice president of the [[World Jewish Congress]] and a leading representative of world Jewry in the historic [[Christian-Jewish reconciliation#The Catholic Church|Catholic-Jewish dialogue]] that commenced during the papacy of [[Pope John XXIII]]. As a major public figure in the world of Jewish organizational life, Hertzberg has been at the epicenter of the crucial events shaping American Jewish life since the end of World War II. He walked with [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], in the [[1963]] [[March to Washington]] and [[Bloody Sunday (1965)|Bloody Sunday]] at the height of the [[American civil rights movement]], and [[Henry Kissinger]]. Hertzberg played a major role in some of the most significant issues the world Jewish community faced in the decades following World War II, including discussions with the [[Catholic Church]] over the still unresolved conflict over the Vatican's release of documents pertaining to [[Pius XII]] and the [[Holocaust]], as well as his outspoken criticism of the policies of [[Israel]] toward the [[Palestinians]]. 

Hertzberg also made his mark in Jewish scholarship. His landmark book, "The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism" (1968), argued that the source of modern antisemitism could be traced to the "liberal" ideas of such "enlightened" philosophers as Voltaire. Similarly, his "The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader" (1970) pioneered the study of Zionism and provided generations of students with the understanding that modern Zionism was a secular movement to remake Jewish identity into one of the many modern secular nationalisms. Finally, although a self-styled pragmatic liberal, Hertzberg saw no contradiction between his political convictions and his reverence for a Jewish tradition shorn of its religious fundamentalism.