As a professor of Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, I was delighted to hear Galit Distel-Atbaryan say: The [education] sub-committee which I head is determined to make a fundamental change in ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: Hi, Alan Saunders here, and this week The Philosopher's Zone's special series on Jewish ...

Paul Franks, who specializes in Jewish philosophy, German Idealism, the work of Immanuel Kant, metaphysics and epistemology, and the philosophy of the human sciences, has been appointed the Robert F.

Steven Nadler: It took various forms. In a way this was the central project, not just of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages, but also of Christian philosophy and Muslim philosophy. How to reconcile ...

After decades of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz being a huge presence in the field of translating and annotating the Talmud in both Hebrew and English, he started to publish in a wide variety of other areas.

Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict ...

In the Footsteps of the Kuzari is a translation of Prof. Shalom Rosenberg’s Hebrew work that has had significant influence in Israeli religious circles. Organized as a commentary on Rav Yehudah HaLevi ...

Graetz’s magnum opus, the magisterial and paradigmatic A History of the Jews, was arguably the first comprehensive history of the Jewish people written purely from a Jewish perspective. This work, ...

Modern Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience provides a distinctive, interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the modern Jewish experience. Articles focus on topics pertinent to the ...

German-Jewish intellectuals, the alienated hommes de lettres of early twentieth century German-speaking Central Europe, constituted a class within that complex and multi-layered Jewish society against ...

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‘The Inevitability of Tragedy’ shows how the abidingly influential ex-secretary of state’s strategies were shaped by family’s escape from Nazis and by German Jewish intellectuals Share A biographer ...