Routledge Jewish Studies Series
About the Book Series
Studies, which are interpreted to cover the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, culture, politics, philosophy, theology, religion, as they relate to Jewish affairs. The remit includes texts which have as their primary focus issues, ideas, personalities and events of relevance to Jews, Jewish life and the concepts which have characterised Jewish culture both in the past and today. The series is interested in receiving appropriate scripts or proposals.
The Environment and Literature of Moral Dilemmas: From Adam to Michael K
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
May 31, 2023
Exploring the literature of environmental moral dilemmas from the Hebrew Bible to modern times, this book argues the necessity of cross-disciplinary approaches to environmental studies, as a subject affecting everyone, in every aspect of life. Moral dilemmas are central in the literary genre of ...
Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and Self-Representation
1st Edition
By Naphtaly Shem-Tov
January 09, 2023
This book conceptualizes Mizrahi (Middle Eastern Jewish) theatre, unfolding its performances in the field of Israeli theatre with a critical gaze. It covers the conceptualization and typology, not along a chronological axis, but rather through seven theatrical forms. The author suggests a defi ...
The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik
1st Edition
By Heshey Zelcer, Mark Zelcer
January 09, 2023
Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the ...
Birth-Throes of the Israeli Homeland: The Concept of Moledet
1st Edition
By David Ohana
December 19, 2022
The book brings forth various perspectives on the Israeli "homeland" (moledet) from various known Israeli intellectuals such as Boaz Evron, Menachem Brinker, Jacqueline Kahanoff and more. Binding together various academic fields to deal with the question of the essence of the Israeli homeland: from...
On Liberty: Jewish Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
By Daniel Frank
March 05, 2019
The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such. This debate is advanced by particularising it to the experience of Jews in the modern world. Essays focus on the variety of views of the relationships ...
The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn: Aesthetics, Religion & Morality in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Leah Hochman
October 18, 2018
The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn examines the idea of ugliness through four angles: philosophical aesthetics, early anthropology, physiognomy and portraiture in the eighteenth-century. Highlighting a theory that describes the benefit of encountering ugly objects in art and nature, ...
The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: A Century-Old Myth
1st Edition
Edited
By Esther Webman
August 10, 2018
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it ...
The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
August 09, 2018
The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism. ...
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Diemling, Larry Ray
June 28, 2018
The drawing of boundaries has always been a key part of the Jewish tradition and has served to maintain a distinctive Jewish identity. At the same time, these boundaries have consistently been subject to negotiation, transgression and contestation. The increasing fragmentation of Judaism into ...
Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and Jewish National Thought
1st Edition
By Yotam Hotam
July 27, 2017
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical ‘cultural crisis’. One response to this crisis was the emergence of ‘Life ...
Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity: Philosophical Marranos
1st Edition
By Agata Bielik-Robson
June 16, 2017
This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employed here, in the domain of modern philosophical ...
Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence
1st Edition
Edited
By Agata Bielik-Robson, Adam Lipszyc
June 16, 2017
The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to define, rarely referring to openly revealed ...