Makers of Jewish modernity
Subtitle: thinkers, artists, leaders, and the world they made
By: editors, Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal ; editorial assistant and photography curator: Ulrich Schultz
Contributors: Flem, Lydia
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780691164236
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Jewish scientists; Jewish influences; Judaism; Jews; Intellectual life; Biography; Civilization; Western Civilization; Jewish artists; Identity; History
Description: "This superb collection presents more than forty incisive portraits of leading Jewish thinkers, artists, scientists, and other public figures of the last hundred years who, in their own unique ways, engaged with and helped shape the modern world. Makers of Jewish Modernity features entries on political figures such as Walther Rathenau, Rosa Luxemburg, and David Ben-Gurion; philosophers and critics such as Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler; and artists such as Mark Rothko. The book provides fresh insights into the lives and careers of novelists like Franz Kafka, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth; the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen; social scientists such as Sigmund Freud; religious leaders and thinkers such as Avraham Kook and Martin Buber; and many others. Written by a diverse group of leading contemporary scholars from around the world, these vibrant and frequently surprising portraits offer a global perspective that highlights the multiplicity of Jewish experience and thought. A reference book like no other, Makers of Jewish Modernity includes an informative general introduction that situates its subjects within the broader context of Jewish modernity as well as a rich selection of photos." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Thinking Jewish modernity  -- Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal; title: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Judaism essential and mysterious  -- Lydia Flem; title: Émile Durkheim (1858-1917): modern society and the Jews  -- Bruno Karsenti; title: Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): sovereignty and the two Palestines  -- Raef Zreik; title: Simon Dubnow (1860-1941): reluctant secularism  -- Dan Diner; title: Bernard Lazare (1865-1903): radical modernism and Jewish identity  -- Nathaniel Berman; title: Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935): revelation and redemption  -- Yehudah Mirsky; title: Aby Warburg (1866-1929): "Thinking Jewish" in modernity  -- Griselda Pollock; title: Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, prescription, prophecy  -- Leon Botstein; title: Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945): poetic redemption  -- Vivian Liska; title: Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): universalism and particularism  -- Kevin B. Anderson and Peter Hudis; title: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): sonic allegories  -- Ruth Hacohen; title: Martin Buber (1878-1965): the theopolitical hour  -- Christoph Schmidt; title: Albert Einstein (1879-1955): solidarity and ambivalence  -- Robert Schulmann; title: Horace Kallen (1882-1974): pragmatic modernism  -- Jacques Picard; title: Franz Kafka (1883-1924): writing in motion  -- Galili Shahar; title: David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): the politicization of the Jews  -- Yaron Ezrahi; title: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): on the idea of diaspora  -- Peter E. Gordon; title: René Cassin (1887-1976): human rights and Jewish internationalism  -- Samuel Moyn; title: Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970): baptism by fire  -- Ariel Hirschfeld; title: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): anti-apocalyptic world politics  -- Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky; title: Peretz Markish (1895-1952): modern Marxist and Yiddishist  -- David Shneer and Robert Adler Peckerar; title: Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): mystical modernism  -- David Biale; title: Leo Strauss (1899-1973): Protestant Judaism and its Islamic remedy  -- Leora F. Batnitzky; title: Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994): a believer's voyage  -- Avi Sagi; title: Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969): Auschwitz and commodity fetishism  -- Moshe Zuckermann; title: Mark Rothko (1903-1970): beyond absence  -- Ulrike Gehring; title: Elias Canetti (1905-1994): a difficult contemporary  -- Galin Tihanov; title: Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995): tradition and its other  -- Raphael Zagury-Orly; title: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): being in the present  -- Martine Leibovici; title: Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987): Judaism past and present  -- Silvia Berti; title: Simone Weil (1909-1943): a Jewish thinker?  -- Maud S. Mandel; title: Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997): unpretentious passion  -- Yuli Tamir; title: Nathan Alterman (1910-1970): poetry national and political  -- Hannan Hever; title: Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Athens and Jerusalem  -- Steven Jaron; title: Primo Levi (1919-1987): memory and enlightenment  -- Enzo Traverso; title: Paul Celan (1920-1970): the word proscribed  -- Arnau Pons; title: Clarice Lispector -- (1920-1977): Nelson H. Vieira; title: Juan Gelman (1930-2014): The bereaved bird  -- Pablo Kirtchuk; title: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Judeities  -- Joseph Cohen; title: Philip Roth -- (1933- ): writing the American Jewish community / -- Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi; title: Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): poetry, power, powerlessness  -- Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch; title: Joel and Ethan Cohen (1954- /1957- ): finding Rabbi Marshak  -- Daniel Herwitz; title: Judith Butler (1956- ): between ethics and politics -- Bonnie Honig and John Wolfe Ackerman.