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.... They presented Islam as derived from Judaism, and under whose aegis, especially in medieval Muslim Spain, Jews enjoyed not only religious tolerance but cultural and economic flourishing. The image of Islam was of a rational religion that maintained Judaism's monotheism, rejection of anthropomorphism, and ethical...

... after its resurgence, whether political theology means quite the same now as it did in the era of its birth. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 On the Origins of “Political Theology”: Judaism and Heresy between the World Wars Benjamin Lazier History...

... theology as it plays out in his philosophy of history as well as his historical anthropology and lays a particular emphasis on the peculiar role that the figure of Judaism plays in them. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Beyond Gnosticism and Magic...

... of a political anti-Semitism that he distinguishes not only from premodern Christian anti-Judaism but also from nineteenth-century racialist discourse. Under National Socialism, anti-Semitism was transformed from an attitude, based on personal convictions, to an “institution of Nazi statesmanship.” For Pollock...

... of Historical Reason , by Taubes Jacob , xviii – xlx . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Idel Moshe . 2012 . “ Messianic Scholars: On the Early Israeli Scholarship, Politics, and Messianism .” Modern Judaism 32 , no. 1 : 22 – 53 . Jacobson Eric . 2003 . Metaphysics...

... him in Germany found his choice, to say the least, irritating.”5 Eliezer Schweid writes that “Gershom Scholem understood mysticism to be the nucleus out of which Judaism renews itself.”6 These descriptions are, of course, not untrue. Scholem’s Zionism and his kabbalah were intertwined...

... Debate and Modern Jewish Historiography.” Modern Judaism 6 , no. 3 : 261 – 86 . ———. 1995 . Re-inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History . New York : Oxford University Press . Necker Gerold Morlok Elke Morgenstern Matthias...

... broadly intellectual distance. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Judaism Hasidism mysticism history of scholarship Between the spring of 1940 and the summer of 1953, Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) and Abraham Joshua Heschel...

...—are always, as a consubstantiality, made up of the same psychic [seelisch] factors.5 He posited the existence of an “outlook” that members of the Jewish race possessed whether or not they practiced Judaism, partook of Jewish culture, or indeed even identified as Jews at all. In this conception...

... of weakness than to Paul’s heroic suffering. As already emerges from the title Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, Cohen takes as the starting point for his late work Kant’s concept of a “natural” or “general” religion, or simply of a “religion of reason.”6 Unlike Kant, who viewed...

... into German.11 Itta Shed- letzky, the editor of Scholem’s published letters, has described his intensive work on the lamentations as a reflection of his mourning over a Judaism lost   9. The difficulty of reaching a purely “performative” mode of apophasis is described in the introduction to ML...

... and imagery from which Auerbach draws and which he echoes in his remarks to Rüstow. Schleiermacher, as Newman points out, describes Jewry’s inexplicably long persistence in a state of living death. 12 Judaism is like a mummy that refuses to rot away ( unverwesliche Mumie ). 13 Similar images were used...

... published to explain the “truth” about Strauss. See Ann Norton, Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005); Steven B. Smith, Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006); Catherine Zuckert, The Truth...

...] leads me to conceptualize Judaism as self-interested groups whose interests often conflict with segments of the gentile community. Anti- Jewish attitudes and behavior have been a pervasive feature of the Jewish experience since the beginnings of the Diaspora well over 2000 years ago.19...

... evades it. 49. A significant figuration of modernity’s limited engagement with the world is “Judaism.” In the Black Notebooks, Heidegger speaks of the Jewish “talent for calculation,” connecting Jews to the equal- izing, transparent, and mechanical worldviews of the scientific revolution...

... . 1996 . “German Jews beyond Judaism: The Gerhard / Israel / George L. Mosse Case.” In The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered: A Symposium in Honor of George L. Mosse , edited by Berghahn Klaus , 233 – 46 . New York : Lang . Hermansen Marcia . 1999 . “Roads to Mecca: Conversion...

.... Goldberg was the center of one of what Scholem called the “three sects” of German Judaism in the Weimar period: the Aby Warburg circle in Hamburg, the School for Social Research circle in Frankfurt, and the Goldberg circle in Berlin. 7 Among the members of his circle, Goldberg’s closest philosophical...

... is envisioned in Landauer’s lecture? Second, if Landauer’s lecture marks a reckoning with Hölderlin occasioned by the horrors of World War I—an effort to salvage the German patria as a genuine form of community—it does so via a specific appeal to Judaism. Indeed, as we will find, Landauer presents Hölderlin...

... to overcome his inherent Judaism. . . . It is through him, therefore, that we know what it is that we need to protect ourselves against. Namely, the ten- dency to Judaism in each and every one of us. And only in resisting this Juda- ism can I do the work of the Lord.” Outside the Villa Pauly, Kremer...

...” guides Schmitt’s and Benjamin’s temporal and political horizon. For Agamben, an empha- sis on a Paulinian theology of the present, or what Martin Buber fi rst called “the characteristic stamp of the time” a half century ago (Two Types of Faith: A Study of Interpenetration of Judaism and Christianity...