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Title Makers of Jewish modernity : thinkers, artists, leaders, and the world they made / editors, Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal ; editorial assistant and photography curator: Ulrich Schultz.

Publication Info. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]
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Description vii, 680 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Thinking Jewish modernity / Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Judaism essential and mysterious / Lydia Flem -- Émile Durkheim (1858-1917): modern society and the Jews / Bruno Karsenti -- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): sovereignty and the two Palestines / Raef Zreik -- Simon Dubnow (1860-1941): reluctant secularism / Dan Diner -- Bernard Lazare (1865-1903): radical modernism and Jewish identity / Nathaniel Berman -- Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935): revelation and redemption / Yehudah Mirsky -- Aby Warburg (1866-1929): "Thinking Jewish" in modernity / Griselda Pollock -- Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, prescription, prophecy / Leon Botstein -- Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945): poetic redemption / Vivian Liska -- Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): universalism and particularism / Kevin B. Anderson and Peter Hudis -- Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): sonic allegories / Ruth Hacohen -- Martin Buber (1878-1965): the theopolitical hour / Christoph Schmidt -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955): solidarity and ambivalence / Robert Schulmann -- Horace Kallen (1882-1974): pragmatic modernism / Jacques Picard -- Franz Kafka (1883-1924): wiring in motion / Galili Shahar -- David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): the politicization of the Jews / Yaron Ezrahi -- Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): on the idea of diaspora / Peter E. Gordon -- René Cassin (1887-1976): human rights and Jewish internationalism / Samuel Moyn -- Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970): baptism by fire / Ariel Hirschfeld -- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): anti-apocalyptic world politics / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky -- Peretz Markish (1895-1952): modern Marxist and Yiddishist / David Shneer and Robert Adler Peckerar -- Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): mystical modernism / David Biale -- Leo Strauss (1899-1973): Protestant Judaism and its Islamic remedy / Leora F. Batnitzky -- Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994): a believer's voyage / Avi Sagi -- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969): Auschwitz and commodity fetishism / Moshe Zuckermann -- Mark Rothko (1903-1970): beyond absence / Ulrike Gehring -- Elias Canetti (1905-1994): a difficult contemporary / Galin Tihanov -- Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995): tradition and its other / Raphael Zagury-Orly -- Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): being in the present / Martine Leibovici -- Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987): Judaism past and present / Silvia Berti -- Simone Weil (1909-1943): a Jewish thinker? / Maud S. Mandel -- Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997): unpretentious passion / Yuli Tamir -- Nathan Alterman (1910-1970): poetry national and political / Hannan Hever -- Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Athens and Jerusalem / Steven Jaron -- Primo Levi (1919-1987): memory and enlightenment / Enzo Traverso -- Paul Celan (1920-1970): the word proscribed / Arnau Pons -- Clarice Lispector (1920-1977): Nelson H. Vieira -- Juan Gelman (1930-2014): The bereaved bird / Pablo Kirtchuk -- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Judeities / Joseph Cohen -- Philip Roth (1933- ): writing the American Jewish community / Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi -- Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): poetry, power, powerlessness / Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch -- Joel and Ethan Cohen (1954- /1957- ): finding Rabbi Marshak / Daniel Herwitz -- Judith Butler (1956- ): between ethics and politics / Bonnie Honig and John Wolfe Ackerman.
Subject Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-
Jews -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Biography.
Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Biography.
Jews -- Intellectual life -- 21st century -- Biography.
Jews -- Civilization.
Civilization, Western -- Jewish influences.
Jewish scientists -- Biography.
Jewish artists -- Biography.
Jews -- Identity.
Civilization, Western -- Jewish influences. (OCoLC)fst01766498
Jewish artists. (OCoLC)fst00982658
Jewish scientists. (OCoLC)fst00982979
Jews -- Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00983166
Jews -- Identity. (OCoLC)fst00983278
Jews -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00983287
Judaism -- Modern period. (OCoLC)fst01907048
Chronological Term 1800-2099
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Juden. (DE-588)4028808-0
Added Author Picard, Jacques, editor.
Revel, Jacques, 1942- editor.
Steinberg, Michael P., editor.
Zertal, Idith, editor.
Container of (work): Flem, Lydia. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
ISBN 9780691164236 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
0691164231 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper)
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