Tradition and Reality: The Impact of History on Jewish Thought PDF
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X The Impact of on History Modem Thought Jewish $6.95 In the early nineteenth century, as Jews through- out Western Europe acquired political and legal status, European thought currents began to erode the dependence of Jewish intellectuals on their religious and historical tradition. This ero- sion was fostered by a movement of Jewish in- tellectuals in Germany who put religious tradi- tion in the role the historian had reserved for the records of his civilization; that is, as keys to understanding what has been and might be, but not necessarily as guides to what should be. In this volume, the third book in the Contempo- rary Jewish Civilization Series, Nathan Roten- streich examines the trends of thought (the Science of Judaism) and six prominent nine- teenth-century scholars—Leopold Zunz, Hein- rich Graetz, Nachman Krochmal, Simon Dub- now, Ahad Ha-am, and Chaim Nachman Bialik —who attempted to replace the religious bonds by principles of different character. Against the general direction in which these scholars move, however, Dr. Rotenstreich posits again the question of the role of Jewish religious tradition as such. He discusses the intimate and fundamental closeness of this tradition to the revealed word of God. He reasons that a reju- venation of tradition has to come near to no- tions implied in the Judaic view of the world, i.e., to man as a being judged by his deeds. (Continued on back flap) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2016 in https://archive.org/details/traditionrealityOOnath CONTEMPORARY JEWISH CIVILIZATION SERIES In cooperation with Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem moshe davis, Editor OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES! Yehuda Bauer, Flight and Rescue Brichah : Simon N. Herman, Israelis and Jews Moshe Davis, The Changing Jewish People (to be published in 1973) Tradition and Reality The Impact of History on Modern Jewish Thought TRADITION and REALITY The Impact of History on Modern Jewish Thought by Nathan Rotenstreich RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK © Copyright 1972 by Nathan Rotenstreich All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. isbn: 0-394 46425-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 71-159369 Manufactured in the United States of America 98765432 First Edition
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