The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience

Festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29268-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

In this tribute to Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson present sixteen original essays written by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, modern Judaism, and theology after the Holocaust, fields of inquiry where Steven Katz made major contributions over the course of his distinguished scholarly career.

The authors of this volume, specialists in Jewish history, especially the modern experience, and Jewish thought from the Bible to Buber, offer theoretical and practical observations on the value of the particular. Contributions range from Tim Knepper’s reevaluation of the ineffability discourse to the particulars of the Settlement Cookbook, examined by Nora Rubel as an American classic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zank, Michael

Anderson, Ingrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction, Michael Zank
Part I: Comparative Mysticism
Effable Ineffabilities: Steven Katz's Contribution to the Study of Ineffability Discourse, Timothy Knepper
Conceptualizations of Tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah, Moshe Idel
Hasidic Derashah as Illuminated Exegesis, Nehemia Polen
A Matter of Context: Comparing Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism, Yair Lior
Part II: Philosophy of Religion
Spinoza on Love, David Novak
Mendelssohn and Kant: Ethics and Aesthetics, Leah Hochmann
Martin Buber on Monotheism and its Discontents, Paul Mendes-Flohr
The Eros of Ethics: Posthumous Writings of Emmanuel Levinas, Seán Hand
Part III: Modern Judaism
Hebrew Justice: Reconstruction for Today, Youde Fu
Eternal Duration and Temporal Compresence: The Influence of Habad on Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Elliot Wolfson
Martin Buber in America: An Ambivalent Reception, Asher Biemann
A “Jewish” Joy of Cooking? How a 20th Century Cookbook Containing Frog’s Legs, Snails, and Ham Became a Beloved Jewish Icon, Nora Rubel
Part IV: Post Holocaust Theology
Reenacted Humanism: If This is a Man and Primo Levi’s ‘New Bible’, Sharon Portnoff
Theology as Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas as Jewish Post-Holocaust Thinker, Didier Pollefeyt
Ethics, Meaning, and the Absurd in Elie Wiesel’s The Trial of God and Albert Camus’s The Plague, Ingrid Anderson
The Holocaust: An Indic Perspective, Arvind Sharma
Steven T. Katz Selected Publications

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Zank, Ph.D. (1994), Brandeis University, is Professor of Religion at Boston University where he also serves as the director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies.

Ingrid Anderson, Ph.D. (2014), Boston University, is a Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and an affiliate of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at that University.