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| Named Person: | Hayyim Nahman Bialik |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
S Daniel Breslauer |
| ISBN: | 076182104X 9780761821045 |
| OCLC Number: | 47705469 |
| Description: | xiv, 256 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Chapter 1 Preface: Before the Fall Chapter 2 Introduction: Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber Chapter 3 Theology Without Religion: Chapter 4 Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and Responses to the Holocaust Chapter 5 A Possibility for Deconstruction of Revelation: The Case of Eugene B. Borowitz Chapter 6 Visions of the Messiah in Poetry, Theology, and Mysticism Chapter 7 Jewish Culture Without Religion: Chapter 8 Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural Zionism Chapter 9 Anthological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish Book Chapter 10 Bialik, Agnon, and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual Quest Chapter 11 Jewish Ethics Without Religion: Chapter 12 Negotiation as Theology: Reflections on Stories by I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, and Martin Buber Chapter 13 Considerations of Eisik ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I.L. Peretz, and the Meaning of Circumcision Chapter 14 The Limits of Covenant Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld, and the Subversive in Peretz Chapter 15 Selected Bibliography Chapter 16 Index |
| Series Title: | Studies in Judaism. |
| Responsibility: | S. Daniel Breslauer. |
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'Creating a Judaism without Religion' is a necessary and helpful corrective to the bias toward theory that is prevalent in modern Jewish thought. -- Martin Kavka, Florida State University Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies A welcome and recommended addition to Judaic Studies reading lists and academic reference collections... The Bookwatch A welcome and recommended addition to Judaic Studies reading lists and academic reference collections... The Bookwatch 'Creating a Judaism without Religion' is a necessary and helpful corrective to the bias toward theory that is prevalent in modern Jewish thought. -- Martin Kavka, Florida State University Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies Read more...
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- Judaism -- 20th century.
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- Literature, Modern -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
- Judaism in literature.
- Jewish ethics in literature.
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- Reformjudentum.
- Judentum.
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