Creating a Judaism Without Religion: A Postmodern Jewish Possibility
This book examines how some modern and contemporary Jewish thinkers and writers have imagined a Judaism without the boundaries and restrictions that go by the name of "religion." The book offers scholarly insights into some Jewish thinkers–notably Martin Buber and Eugene Borowitz, some Jewish writers–in particular the poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik and the Yiddish author I.L. Peretz. The study also introduces more contemporary thinkers and writers such as the postmodernist Jacques Derrida, the...
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Preface: Before the Fall1Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber32Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and Responses to the Holocaust333A Possibility For Deconstruction of Revelation: The Case of Eugene B. Borowitz554Visions of the Messiah in Poetry, Theology, and Mysticism835Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural Zionism1056Anthological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish Book1317Bialik, Agnon, and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual Quest1538Negotiation as Theology: Reflections on Stories by I. L. Peretz, S. Y. Agnon, and Martin Buber1819Considerations of Eisik ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I. L. Peretz, and the Meaning of Circumcision20110The Limits of Covenant Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld and the Subversive in Peretz233Selected Bibliography243Index253
\ The BookwatchA welcome and recommended addition to Judaic Studies reading lists and academic reference collections. . .\ \ \ \ \ Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish StudiesCreating a Judaism without Religion' is a necessary and helpful corrective to the bias toward theory that is prevalent in modern Jewish thought.\ — Martin Kavka, Florida State University\ \ \ Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Jewish Studies'Creating a Judaism without Religion' is a necessary and helpful corrective to the bias toward theory that is prevalent in modern Jewish thought.\ \
