Martin Buber A Life of Faith and Dissent (Jewish Lives) by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Paul Mendesand#8211 Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15304-0, ISBN: 0-300-15304-X
"From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber An authority on the twentieth‑century philosopher Martin Buber (1878–1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. The book is organized around several key moments, such as his sudden abandonment by his mother w ..."
Martin Buber A Life of Faith and Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr 384 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24523-3, ISBN: 0-300-24523-8
"significance for him.38 Nevertheless, he was eager to have the confessions seen
in print, if for no other reason than that they represented years of research. In his
introduction to Ecstatic Confessions, he thus expressed a muffled ambivalence ..."
"The edited version of The Jew in the Modern World, edited by the authors specifically for a educational Holocaust class."
Gershom Scholem The Man and His Work by Paul Mendes-Flohr 127 Pages, Published 2012 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-1280-1, ISBN: 1-4384-1280-0
"The articles by E. Urbach ('Gershom Scholem and Judaic Studies'), J. Ben-
Shlomo ('Gershom Scholem on Pantheism in the Kabbala'), I. Tishby ('Gershom
Scholem's Contribution to the Study of the Zohar'), R. Schatz ('Gershom
Scholem's Interpretation of Hasidism as an Expression of His Idealism'), M. Beit-
Arié ('Gershom Scholem as Bibliophile') and N. Rotenstreich ('Gershom
Scholem's Conception of Jewish Nationalism') originally appeare ..."
"An encounter with Aaron Siskind inspired American photographer Alan Cohen (born 1943) to abandon his doctoral program in thermodynamics and instead pursue a career in photography under Siskind’s tutelage. For the past two decades Cohen has traveled the world, using the medium of black-and-white photography to record places marked by the political acts or the covert actions of others; places marked by time through the course of natural a ..."
"God directly intervenes in Pharaoh's inner deliberations, “hardening his heart" in
order to demonstrate his divine might (Ex. 1071). God also hardens the heart of
Sihon, king of the Arnorites (Deut. 2:30), and applies the same divine strategy to
the Canaanites (Josh. 11:20). Conversely, God does not permit Abimelech, king
of Gerar, to sin with Abraham's wife Sarah (Gen. 20:6). In an encounter with Saul,
David suggests that it may h ..."
"The last two centuries have witnessed a radical transformation of Jewish life. Marked by such profound events as the emancipation from the ghettoes of Europe, the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel, Judaism's long journey through the modern age has been a complex and tumultuous one, leading many Jews to ask themselves not only where they have been and where they are going, but what it means to be a Jew in today's wor ..."
Love, Accusative and Dative Reflections on Leviticus 19:18 (The B.G. Rudolph Lectures in Judaic Studies) by Paul Mendes-Flohr Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2007 by Syracuse University ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3143-9, ISBN: 0-8156-3143-X
"In this probing and original lecture, Paul Mendes-Flohr examines classical and modern Jewish commentaries on the biblical commandment, "Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord" (Leviticus 19:18). The lecture concludes by addressing a question that vexed commentators throughout the generations: Can love be commanded?"
" German Jews were fully assimilated and secularized in the nineteenth century—or so it is commonly assumed. In Jewish Scholarship and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Nils Roemer challenges this assumption, finding that religious sentiments, concepts, and rhetoric found expression through a newly emerging theological historicism at the center of modern German Jewish culture. Modern German Jewish identity developed during the str ..."
Spinoza's Modernity(1st Edition) Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine by Willi Goetschel, Paul Mendes-Flohr Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-19084-2, ISBN: 0-299-19084-6
""Spinoza's Modernity" is a major, original work of intellectual history that reassesses the philosophical project of Baruch Spinoza, uncovers his influence on later thinkers, and demonstrates how that crucial influence on Moses Mendelssohn, G. E. Lessing, and Heinrich Heine shaped the development of modern critical thought. Excommunicated by his Jewish community, Spinoza was a controversial figure in his lifetime and for centuries after ..."
"The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in 'synthesis:' programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective has proven elusive, leaving nearly as ma ..."
"The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in "synthesis: " programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective has proven elusive, leaving nearly as m ..."
Martin Buber(1st Edition) A Contemporary Perspective (Library of Jewish Philosophy) by Paul Mendes-Flohr Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2002 by Syracuse University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-2937-5, ISBN: 0-8156-2937-0
"A Contemporary Perspective Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Pôl Mendes-Flôr. Buber. and
. the. Bible: Guiding. Principles. and. the. Legacy. of. His. Interpretation. Karl-
Johan Illman Buber 's writings on the Bible, most of which he included in the
second volume of his collected works,1 constitute more than a quarter of his
literary output. If we add to them his work on the German translation of the
Hebrew Bible, we may safely state that Buber ..."
"When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromlanda land of two rivershe meant to underscore, indeed celebrate, the fact that German-Jewish culture is nurtured by both German culture and the Jewish religious and cultural heritage. In this thought-provoking book, Paul Mendes-Flohr explores through the prism of Rosenzweig’s image how German Jew ..."
"A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, "German-Jewish History in Modern Times" is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish history. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in Ger ..."
"A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, "German-Jewish History in Modern Times" is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish History. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in Ger ..."
"A comprehensive historical survey of the Jewish presence in Central Europe from the seventeenth century to the Holocaust, German-Jewish History in Modern Times is a four-volume collective project by a team of leading scholars, offering a vivid portrait of Jewish History. The series is sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute, established in 1955 in Jerusalem, London, and New York for the purpose of advancing scholarship on the Jews in Germa ..."
Divided Passions Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity (Culture of Jewish Modernity) by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Pôl Mendes-Flôr Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 1991 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2030-3, ISBN: 0-8143-2030-9
"Paul Mendes-Flohr is emerging as the leading Jewish intellectual historian of the present generation. In particular, he is responsible for a significant amount of the important and pertinent scholarship in the field of German-Jewish intellectual history. No one else is quite as intimately knowledgeable with this material, the ambiguous legacy of one of the most inventive and poignant episodes of creativity in the life of the Diaspora. ..."
From Mysticism to Dialogue(1st Edition) Martin Buber's Transformation to German Social Thought (Culture of Jewish Modernity) by Paul Mendes-Flohr Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1989 by Wayne State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2029-7, ISBN: 0-8143-2029-5
"Paul Mendes-Flohr illuminates Martin Buber's central themes in a wholly different light from that of the predominant line of interpretation. Consequently, Buber's work assumes even greater importance than previous analyses have assigned. Emerging from the narrowly conceptualized existentialist interpretations, he becomes an intellectually powerful figure, occupying a formidable position within the contemporary setting of German social t ..."
From Mysticism to Dialogue(1st Edition) Martin Buber's Transformation of German Social Thought (Culture of Jewish Modernity) (English and German Edition) by Paul Mendes-Flohr Hardcover, 205 Pages, Published 1989 by Wayne State Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8143-2028-0, ISBN: 0-8143-2028-7
"Paul Mendes-Flohr illuminates Martin Buber's central themes in a wholly different light from that of the predominant line of interpretation. Consequently, Buber's work assumes even greater importance than previous analyses have assigned. Emerging from the narrowly conceptualized existentialist interpretations, he becomes an intellectually powerful figure, occupying a formidable position within the contemporary setting of German social t ..."