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Creating a Judaism Without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility »

Book cover image of Creating a Judaism Without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility by S. Daniel Breslauer

Authors: S. Daniel Breslauer
ISBN-13: 9780761821045, ISBN-10: 076182104X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: S. Daniel Breslauer

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Table of Contents

Preface: Before the Fall
1Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber3
2Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and Responses to the Holocaust33
3A Possibility For Deconstruction of Revelation: The Case of Eugene B. Borowitz55
4Visions of the Messiah in Poetry, Theology, and Mysticism83
5Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural Zionism105
6Anthological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish Book131
7Bialik, Agnon, and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual Quest153
8Negotiation as Theology: Reflections on Stories by I. L. Peretz, S. Y. Agnon, and Martin Buber181
9Considerations of Eisik ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I. L. Peretz, and the Meaning of Circumcision201
10The Limits of Covenant Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld and the Subversive in Peretz233
Selected Bibliography243
Index253

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Christianity Judaism & Judaica General & Miscellaneous Judaism
Christianity Judaism & Judaica History - Judaism
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Jewish Life
Christianity Judaism & Judaica Jewish Philosophy
Christianity All Religion General & Miscellaneous Religion
Judaism & Judaica History - Judaism Judaism - History
Judaism & Judaica Jewish Life Jewish Life - General & Miscellaneous
Judaism & Judaica Jewish Philosophy Bialik, Hayyim Nahman (1873 - 1934)
Nonfiction Philosophy General & Miscellaneous Philosophy
Nonfiction Philosophy Philosophical Positions & Movements
Nonfiction Social Sciences Jewish Studies
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Philosophy General & Miscellaneous Philosophy Jewish Philosophy
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