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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790935303321

Autore

Miron Ronny

Titolo

The angel of Jewish history : the image of the Jewish past in the twentieth century / / Ronny Miron ; cover design by Ivan Grave ; photo credit, Martin P. Bühler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brighton, Massachusetts : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61811-359-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (470 p.)

Collana

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments / Miron, Ronny -- Part One. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Amos Funkenstein: Transcendence, Immanence, and Jewish History in an Era of Secularization -- Part Two. Gershom Scholem: History, Continuity, and Secret -- Part Three. Baruch Kurzweil: Break, Poetics, and Continuity -- Part Four. Nathan Rotenstreich: Philosophy, History, and Reality -- Epilogue: The Old Angel -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Angel of Jewish History casts a philosophical gaze upon the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical worldviews of five formative Jewish studies scholars: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Amos Funkenstein, Gershom Scholem, Baruch Kurzweil, and Nathan Rotenstreich. Their hermeneutic worldviews and writings deal with the nature and formation of modern Judaism, the Wissenschaft des Judentums, historicism, the image of the Jewish past and tradition, secularization, and God's status in present-day Jewish reality. In this volume, these issues are explored against the background of the tense discourse between the perception of modern Jewish reality as a break from the past and tradition and the argument for continuity despite the changes and developments of modernity.