How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought by Leora Batnitzky

Author:Leora Batnitzky [Batnitzky, Leora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781400839711
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-08-22T00:00:00+00:00

SUGGESTED READINGS

Background

Braiterman, Zachary. (God) after Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Exploring the development and content of post-Holocaust theology, Braiterman devotes special attention to the emergence of what he calls “antitheodicy”—refusals to justify or explain the relationship between God, suffering, and evil.

Mittleman, Alan L. The Politics of Torah: The Jewish Political Tradition and the Founding of Agudat Israel. New York: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Mittleman looks at the role of Isaac Breurer, Hirsch’s grandson, in creating the religious Zionist political party, Agudat Israel, and its conception of a Torah state.

Morgan, Michael L. Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Analyzing the development of post-Holocaust theology in the United States, Morgan links the novelty and significance of such thought to its reflections on the relationship between history and identity.

Ravitzky, Aviezer. Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism. Trans. Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Focusing on religious versions of Zionism and anti-Zionism, Ravitzky examines the theological and ideological roots of various controversies concerning religion, nation, and state.

Scholem, Gershom. The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality. Foreword Arthur Hertzberg. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.

While exploring a variety of topics, the essays in this volume devote particular attention to the nature and role of messianism in Jewish history.

Schwartz, Dov. Faith at the Crossroads: A Theological Profile of Religious Zionism. Trans. Batya Stein. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Schwartz provides an overview of religious Zionism, emphasizing the ways in which this movement has been forced to reimagine key aspects of the Jewish tradition.

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