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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 Jew in the Modern World(3rd Edition)
by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz
Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press
Abridged
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-024458-3, ISBN: 0-19-024458-5

"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 ..."






Alan Cohen(1st Edition)
Earth with Meaning
by Mr Alan Cohen, Mary Jane Jacob, Lynn Ennis, Roger Manley, Adam Zagajewski, Paul Mendes-Flohr
Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2012 by Gregg Museum Of Art & Design
ISBN-13: 978-0-9831217-3-2, ISBN: 0-9831217-3-7

"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 ..."






20th Century Jewish Religious Thought
Original Essays on Critical Concepts, Movements, and Beliefs
by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Arthur Allen Cohen
Paperback, 1,185 Pages, Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-8276-0971-6, ISBN: 0-8276-0971-X

"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 Jew in the Modern World(3rd Edition)
A Documentary History
by Paul Mendes-Flohr, President Jehuda Reinharz, Jehuda Reinharz, Professor Jehuda Reinharz
Paperback, 912 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538906-7, ISBN: 0-19-538906-9

"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?"






Jewish Scholarship and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany(1st Edition)
Between History and Faith (Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature)
by Nils H. Roemer, Paul Mendes-Flohr
Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-21170-7, ISBN: 0-299-21170-3

"    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 Dialogical Turn(Updated)
New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age
by Charles Camic, Hans Joas, Johan Heilbron, Andrew Abbott, Eleanor Miller, S. N. Eisenstad, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Neil J. Smelser, Thomas Spence Smith, Professor Stephen P. Turner, Professor Edward A. Tiryakian, Saïd Amir Arjomand, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Richard A. Münch, Donald Nathan Levine, Dr Paul Mendes-Flohr
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2711-9, ISBN: 0-7425-2711-5

"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 Dialogical Turn(Updated)
New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age
by Charles Camic, Hans Joas, S. N. Eisenstad, Andrew Abbott, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Johan Heilbron, Eleanor Miller, Neil J. Smelser, Thomas Spence Smith, Professor Stephen P. Turner, Professor Edward A. Tiryakian, Saïd Amir Arjomand, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Richard A. Münch, Dr Paul Mendes-Flohr, Donald Nathan Levine, Saed Amir Arjomand
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2710-2, ISBN: 0-7425-2710-7

"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 ..."






German Jews
A Dual Identity (The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series)
by Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr, Georg Eberhard Rumpf, Paul Mendesand#8211, E. M. Beekman
Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 1999 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-07623-3, ISBN: 0-300-07623-1

"When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromland—a land of two rivers—he 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 ..."






German-Jewish History in Modern Times, volume 4
Renewal and Destruction, 1918-1945
by Avraham Barkai, Michael A. Meyer, Michael Brenner, Mordechai Breuer, Steven M. Lowenstein, Michael Andrew Meyer, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Ma Meyer, Professor Michael Brenner, Columbia University Press
Hardcover, 466 Pages, Published 1998 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07478-0, ISBN: 0-231-07478-6

"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 ..."






German-Jewish History in Modern Times, volume 3
Integration in Dispuite, 1871-1918
by Michael Andrew Meyer, Michael Brenner, Steven M. Lowenstein, Michael A. Meyer, Monika Richarz, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Mordechai Breuer, Michaelm Graetz, Michsel A. Meyer, Ma Meyer, Professor Michael Brenner
Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 1998 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07476-6, ISBN: 0-231-07476-X

"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 ..."






German-Jewish History in Modern Times, volume 1
Tradition and Enlightenment, 1600-1780
by Michael A. Meyer, Michaelm Graetz, Mordechai Breuer, Michael Brenner, Avraham Barkai, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Michael Andrew Meyer
Hardcover, 436 Pages, Published 1996 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07472-8, ISBN: 0-231-07472-7

"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 ..."



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