Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
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Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith Plaskow, Sigmund Freud, and Walter Benjamin.Also including fully updated guides to further reading on figures from the middle ages through to the twenty-first century, historical maps and a chronology placing the thinkers in context, this is an essential and affordable one-volume reference to a rich and complex tradition.
PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronological TableMap of Medieval and Modern JewryIsaac Abrabanel (1437-1508)1Abraham ibn Daud (1110-1180)3Ahad Ha-Am (1856-1927)6Joseph Albo (1380-1445)9Baal Shem Tov (1700-1760)11Leo Baeck (1873-1956)14Bahya ibn Pakuda (1050-1120)17Eliezer Berkovits (1900-1992)19Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917)22Martin Buber (1878-1965)25Arthur A. Cohen (1928-1986)27Hermann Cohen (1842-1918)30Dov Baer of Mezhirich (1710-1772)33Emil Fackenheim (b. 1917)36Solomon Formstecher (1808-1888)38Abraham Geiger (1810-1875)40Gersonides (1288-1344)43Aharon David Gordon (1856-1922)46Heinrich Graetz (1817-1891)48Hasdai Crescas (1340-1412)51Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)54Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)57Moses Hess (1812-1875)59Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888)61Samuel Hirsch (1815-1889)64Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940)66Judah Halevi (1075-1141)69Zevi Hirsch Kalischer (1795-1874)71Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983)74Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935)77Isaac Luria (1534-1572)79Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707-1746)82Solomon Maimon (1753-1800)84Maimonides (1135-1204)87Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976)90Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)92Claude Montefiore (1858-1938)95Nahman of Bratslav (1772-1811)97Nahmanides (1194-1270)100Philo (20 BCE-50)103Leon Pinsker (1821-1891)105Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929)108Richard Rubenstein (b. 1924)110Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon (882-942)113Solomon ibn Gabirol (1020-1057)116Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)119Solomon Ludwig Steinheim (1789-1866)122Hayyim Vital (1542-1620)124Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)127Sherwin Wine (b. 1928)130
