Research Catalog

Title

Fifty key Jewish thinkers / Dan Cohn-Sherbok.

Author

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 207 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Summary

This panoramic survey provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness and complexity of the Jewish philosophical, theological and Kabbalistic tradition. Beginning in the first century with the Hellenistic philosopher Philo, Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers traces the major intellectual events of the last two thousand years, including the growth of Medieval Jewish philosophy, the early modern mystics, the radicals, the Hasidic leaders, the Enlightenment and secular and religious Zionism. From Maimonides to Martin Buber, and from Baruch Spinoza to Elie Wiesel, this volume carries the standard found in Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 1994) and is ideally suited for anyone interested in Jewish thought or history.

Series Statement

Routledge key guides

Uniform Title

Routledge key guides.

Subject

• Rabbis > Biography
• Jewish scholars > Biography
• Jewish philosophers > Biography
• Zionists > Biography
• Philosoph
• Jüdische Philosophie
• Jewish philosophers
• Jewish scholars
• Rabbis
• Zionists

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Isaac Abrabanel -- Ahad Ha-Am -- Joseph Albo -- Hannah Arendt -- Baal Shem Tov -- Leo Baeck -- Walter Benjamin -- Eliezer Berkovits -- Martin Buber -- Hermann Cohen -- Hasdai Crescas -- Abraham ibn Daud -- Jacques Derrida -- Dov Baer of Mezhirich -- Simon Dubnow -- Solomon Formstecher -- Sigmund Freud -- Solomon ibn Gabirol -- Abraham Geiger -- Gersonides -- Aharon David Gordon -- Heinrich Graetz -- Judah Halevi -- Theodor Herzl -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Moses Hess -- Samson Raphael Hirsch -- Samuel Hirsch -- Vladimir Jabotinsky -- Zevi Hirsch Kalischer -- Mordecai Kaplan -- Abraham Isaac Kook -- Immanuel Lévinas -- Isaac Luria -- Moses Hayyim Luzzatto -- Solomon Maimon -- Maimonides -- Karl Marx -- Moses Mendelssohn -- Nahman of Brahtslav -- Nahmanides -- Bahya ibn Pakuda -- Philo -- Leon Pinsker -- Judith Plaskow -- Franz Rosenzweig -- Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon -- Gershom Scholem -- Baruch Spinoza -- Hayyim Vital

ISBN

• 9780415771405 (hardback)
• 0415771404 (hardback)
• 9780415771412 (pbk.)
• 0415771412 (pbk.)
• 9780203088746 (e-book)
• 0203088743 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2006101830

OCLC

• 72868143
• 77270867
• SCSB-10945518

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library