Examination HJ3: Modern Jewish Thought (Professor Mendes-Flohr) Background: Bergman, S. H. Faith and Reason: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought. New York: Schocken, 1961. Funkenstein, Amos. Perceptions of Jewish History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Guttmann, Julius. Philosophies of Judaism. Translated by D. W. Silverman. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Kant, Immanuel. Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Theodore M. Greene and Hoyt H. Hudson. New York: Harper and Row, 1960. Book Four. Katz, Jacob. Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770- 1870. New York: Schocken Books, 1978. ______. Tradition and Crisis. Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages. Translated by Bernard Dov Coopermen. New York: Schocken Books, 1993. Mendes-Flohr, Paul. “Jewish Continuity in an Age of Discontinuity,” in Mendes-Flohr, Divided Passions. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 1990. pp. 54-66. ______. “Jewish Philosophy: Modern.” Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. VIII: 70-82. Mendes-Flohr, Paul and Reinharz, Jehuda. The Jew in the Modern World. A Documentary History. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Meyer, Michael A. The Origins of the Modern Jew. Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1824. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967. ______. Response to Modernity. A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Rotenstreich, Nathan. Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times: From Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. 10 ______. Tradition and Reality: The Impact of History on Modern Jewish Thought. New York: Random House, 1972. ______. Essays in Jewish Philosophy in the Modern Era. Edited by Reinier Munk. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1996. Scholem, Gershom G. “Reflections on Jewish Theology,” in On Jews and Judaism in Crisis. Selected Essays. Edited by Werner J. Dannahauser. New York: Schocken Books, 1976, pp. 261-297. Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi. “Sacred Particularity,” in Beyond Tradition and Modernity. Changing Religions in a Changing World. London: University of London, the Athlone Press, 1976. Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim. Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. Primary Sources: Precursors: Spinoza, Benedict. Theological-Political Treatise. Translated by Samuel Shirley. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998. Mendelssohn and the Berlin Haskalah: Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem: or on Religious Power and Judaism. Introduction and Commentary by Alexander Altmann, trans. Allan Arkush. Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1983. Nineteenth Century Religious Thought: Graetz, Heinrich. The Structure of Jewish History. Edited and Translated by Ismar Schorsch. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of American, 1875. Hirsch, Samson Raphael. The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel. Translated by Bernard Drachman. New York: Feldheim, 1969. Wiener, Max ed. Abraham Geiger and Liberal Judaism. Translated by Ernst Schlochauer. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1962. Twentieth Century: Baeck, Leo. The Essence of Judaism. New York: Schocken, 1976. Buber, Martin. On Judaism. Edited by N. N. Glazer. New York: Schocken Books, 1967. Cohen, Hermann. Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism. Translated with an Introduction by Simon Kaplan. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. ______. Reason and Hope. Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen. Translated by Eva Jospe. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1971. 11 Leibowitz, Yeshayahu. Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State. Ed. E. Goldman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Chapter 1. Rosenzweig, Franz. The Star of Redemption. Translated by William W. Hallo. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. ______. On Jewish Learning. Edited by N. N. Glatzer. New York: Schocken Books, 1955. ______. Philosophical and Theological Writings. Translated and edited by Paul W. Franks and Michael L. Morgan. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000. Strauss, Leo. Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors. Translated by Eva Adler. Albany: SUNY Press, 1995. ______. Preface to Spinoza’s Critique of Religion. Translated by E. M. Sinclair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. ______, Leo Strauss. The Eerly Wirings. 1921-1932, trans. and ed., Michael Zank, Albany: SUNY Press, 2002. The American Scene: Heschel, Abraham J. God in Search of Man. New York: Harper, 1955. Kaplan, Mordecai. Judaism as a Civilization. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1981. Soloveitchik, J. D. Halakhic Man. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1983. ______. “The Lonely Man of Faith.” In Tradition, VII, 2 (1965), pp. 5-67. Post-Holocaust Theoloy Rubenstein, Richard L. After Auschwitz. Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966. Cohen, Arthur. The Tremendum. New York: Continuum, 1993. Fackenheim, Emil. God’s Presence in History. New York: Harper, 1970. Feminist: Plaskow, Judith. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective. New York: Harper and Row, 1990. Post-Modern Trends: Derrida, Jacques. Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas. Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Levinas, Emmanuael. The Levinas Reader. Ed. Sean Hand. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989. ______. Difficult Freedom. Essays on Judaism. Translated by Sean Hand. Baltimore: 12 The John Hopkins University Press, 1990. ______. Nine Talmudic Readings. Translated with an Introduction by Annette Aronowicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Ochs, Peter and Levene, Nancy, eds., Textual Reasonings : Jewish Philosophy and Ttext Study at the end of the Twentieth Century , Grand Rapids, Mich.: Williaam B. Eerdmans, 2000.