On Jewish Learning (Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies) - Softcover

Rosenzweig, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299182347 ISBN 13: 9780299182342

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007

Synopsis

On Jewish Learning Franz Rosenzweig is one of the greatest contributors to Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and is, with Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel, one of the Jewish thinkers most widely read by Christians. "On Jewish Learning" collects essays, speeches, and letters that express Rosenzweig's desire to reconnect the profound truths of Judaism with the lives of ordinary people. An assimilated Jew and Full description

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Synopsis:

As a founder of the House of Jewish Learning in Germany, author of The Star of Redemption , and co-translator with Martin Buber of the Hebrew Bible, Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is a widely read modern Jewish lay philosopher. This collection includes three of his essays on a renaissance in Jewish learning

About the Author:

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) helped establish Das Freie Judische Lehrhaus (Free House of Jewish Learning) in Frankfurt-am-Main. His most influential book is The Star of Redemption, and his German translation, with Martin Buber, of the Bible is considered the finest since Martin Luther's.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0299182347
• ISBN 13: 9780299182342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130