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Jewish philosophy (Hebrew: פילוסופיה יהודית) includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism.
Side by side with these Jewish philosophical trends, scholars have investigated the philosophical ideas contained in the classical sources, so that one can speak of the philosophy of the Bible, of the Talmud, of the Halakhah, of the Zohar.
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs
Jewish philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until modern Haskalah and Jewish emancipation, Jewish philosophy was preoccupied with attempts to reconcile coherent new ideas into the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, thus organizing emergent ideas that are not necessarily Jewish into a ...
The wide range of philosophicaland theological writings that analyze Judaism from a conceptual point of view account for what we call Jewish thought. As such, Jewish thought is not a single continuous tradition, but rather a varied mix of works, which reflect the specific ideological and historical positions of those who wrote them.
- The Paradox of Modern Jewish Philosophy
- Jewish Philosophy and Jews in Modern Europe
- Rethinking Traditional Concepts
- Philosophy in The Context of The Jewish State
- American Jewish Philosophy
Jewish religious thought since the eighteenth century is characterized by a grand paradox. Whereas the Jews’ entry into the modern world has witnessed their increasing secularization, they have at the same time been preoccupied with theological questions. Indeed the preeminent task assumed by modern Jewish religious thought has been to re‑articulat...
There are, however, specifics of the Jewish experience in modern Europe that determine the agenda and peculiar inflections of modern Jewish thought. It should, therefore, be recalled that Jews first encountered the modern world during the protracted struggle in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe to attain political emancipation. This struggle...
Modern Jewish thought in Europe was thus charged with the task not only of explaining Judaism to non‑Jews and to Jews estranged from the sources of their tradition, but also with re‑thinking some of the fundamental, concepts of the tradition that bear on the nature of the Jews as a people: covenant, election, exile (diaspora), the messiah; and the ...
The restoration of the Jews to their ancient patrimony in the land of Israel under Zionism raises a host of perhaps intractable theological questions. The foremost concerns the status and significance of a process initiated and carried out by humans that, throughout the ages, the custodians of Jewish faith taught would be realized only through the ...
American Jewish philosophy and theology focus on a range of disparate themes. Some of these reflect classical theological problems–for instance, the nature of God, the meaning of revelation, or hopes for salvation‑–or momentous historical events: the Nazi Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel, chief among them. Other themes respond...
This volume is dedicated to the memory of our colleague, contributor, and friend Elliott Horowitz, a pioneering scho-lar of early modern Jewish history, and an inspiration in our field, who died on March 18, 2017, as this volume was nearing completion. זכרונולברכה : May his memory be a blessing.
comprehensive overview of Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth century to the present day. Written by a distinguished group of experts in the field, its chapters examine how Jewish thinking was modified in its encounter with modern Europe and America and challenge long-standing assumptions about the nature and pur-pose of modern Jewish ...
