An introduction to modern Jewish philosophy / by Katz, Claire Elise, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…; 1 Mendelssohn and the Enlightened Mind; 2 From Modern to Post-modern: Hermann Cohen and Hannah Arendt; 3 Jewish Existentialism: Shestov, Buber, and Rosenzweig; 4 Emmanuel Levinas and Abraham Joshua Heschel: Response to Modernity; 5 The Limits of Philosophy; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References, Sources and Suggested Reading.…”
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Survival through integration : American Reform Jewish universalism and the Holocaust / by Shiff, Ofer

Table of Contents: “…The Modern Jewish Context; Chapter One Before the Universalistic Coping Pattern Coalesced; Chapter Two Transformation of the Universalistic Perspective into a Jewish Existential Ideology; Chapter Three Jewish Culture and Zionism as seen by "Veteran American" Jews; Chapter Four Intensifying Threats; Chapter Five The Reform and American Jewish Context of the Universalistic Coping Pattern; Epilogue: The Universalistic Reform Pattern from a Historical Perspective; Sources and Bibliography; Index of Names and Concepts.…”
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The Cambridge companion to Shostakovich /

Table of Contents: “…A political football : Shostakovich reception in Germany / Erik Levi -- The rough guide to Shostakovich's harmonic language / David Haas ; Shostakovich on record / David Fanning ; Jewish existential irony as musical ethos in the music of Shostakovich / Esti Sheinberg.…”

Collected Works of A.M. Klein : Literary Essays and Reviews. by Klein, A. M.

Table of Contents: “…(1942) -- The Heart of Europe (1944) -- Maimonides in Hollywood (1944) -- Grand Invective (1944) -- Those Who Should Have Been Ours (1945) -- Rilke and His Translators (1946) -- Departure and Arrival (1946) -- Knut Hamsun (1947) -- Isaak Babel (1948) -- That Rank Picture (1948) -- Cantabile (1948) -- Of Jewish Existentialism (1948) -- T.S. Eliot and the Nobel Prize (1948)…”
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