Authors: Dan Cohn-Sherbok
ISBN-13: 9780415771405, ISBN-10: 0415771404
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: REV
Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.
Also including fully updated guides to further reading on figures from the middle ages through to the twenty-first century, historical maps and a chronology placing the thinkers in context, this is an essential and affordable one-volume reference to a rich and complex tradition.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Chronological Table | ||
Map of Medieval and Modern Jewry | ||
Isaac Abrabanel (1437-1508) | 1 | |
Abraham ibn Daud (1110-1180) | 3 | |
Ahad Ha-Am (1856-1927) | 6 | |
Joseph Albo (1380-1445) | 9 | |
Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760) | 11 | |
Leo Baeck (1873-1956) | 14 | |
Bahya ibn Pakuda (1050-1120) | 17 | |
Eliezer Berkovits (1900-1992) | 19 | |
Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917) | 22 | |
Martin Buber (1878-1965) | 25 | |
Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986) | 27 | |
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) | 30 | |
Dov Baer of Mezhirich (1710-1772) | 33 | |
Emil Fackenheim (b. 1917) | 36 | |
Solomon Formstecher (1808-1888) | 38 | |
Abraham Geiger (1810-1875) | 40 | |
Gersonides (1288-1344) | 43 | |
Aharon David Gordon (1856-1922) | 46 | |
Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891) | 48 | |
Hasdai Crescas (1340-1412) | 51 | |
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) | 54 | |
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) | 57 | |
Moses Hess (1812-1875) | 59 | |
Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) | 61 | |
Samuel Hirsch (1815-1889) | 64 | |
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) | 66 | |
Judah Halevi (1075-1141) | 69 | |
Zevi Hirsch Kalischer (1795-1874) | 71 | |
Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983) | 74 | |
Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) | 77 | |
Isaac Luria (1534-1572) | 79 | |
Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707-1746) | 82 | |
Solomon Maimon (1753-1800) | 84 | |
Maimonides (1135-1204) | 87 | |
Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976) | 90 | |
Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) | 92 | |
Claude Montefiore (1858-1938) | 95 | |
Nahman of Bratslav (1772-1811) | 97 | |
Nahmanides (1194-1270) | 100 | |
Philo (20 BCE-50) | 103 | |
Leon Pinsker (1821-1891) | 105 | |
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) | 108 | |
Richard Rubenstein (b. 1924) | 110 | |
Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon (882-942) | 113 | |
Solomon ibn Gabirol (1020-1057) | 116 | |
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) | 119 | |
Solomon Ludwig Steinheim (1789-1866) | 122 | |
Hayyim Vital (1542-1620) | 124 | |
Elie Wiesel (b. 1928) | 127 | |
Sherwin Wine (b. 1928) | 130 |