On
Jewish Learning
Franz
Rosenzweig
Edited by N. N. Glatzer
WITH
AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN MARTIN BUBER AND FRANZ ROSENZWEIG
Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical
Studies
Elliot Wolfson and Barbara Galli, Series Editors
"Franz Rosenzweig wanted to reopen
the silenced dialogue between the living generation and classical
Judaism."—Nahum N. Glatzer
Franz Rosenzweig is one of the greatest
contributors to Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and
is, with Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel, one of the Jewish
thinkers mostly widely read by Christians. On Jewish Learning collects essays, speeches, and letters that express Rosenzweig's
desire to reconnect the profound truths of Judaism with the lives
of ordinary people. An assimilated Jew and scholar of German
philosophy, Rosenzweig was on the point of conversion to Christianity
when the experience of a Yom Kippur service in 1913 brought him
back to Judaism, and he began to study with philosopher Hermann
Cohen. Seeking how to be an observant Jew in the modern world,
Rosenzweig refused to characterize the traditions of Jewish law
as mere rituals, customs, and folkways. His aim for himself and
for others was to find Judaism by living it, and to live it by
knowing it more deeply.
Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) helped
establish Das Freie Jüdische Lehrhaus (Free House of Jewish
Learning) in Frankfurt-am-Main. His most influential book is The Star of Redemption, now published
by the UW Press. His German translation, with Martin Buber, of
the Bible is considered the finest since Martin Luther's.
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August
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128 pp. 5 1/4 x 8
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