Judaism Books

Book SynopsisIt argues that during the postcolonial and post-Holocaust era, Jewish thinkers in different parts of the world were influenced by Global South thought and mobilized this rich set of intellectual resources to confront the assimilation of normative Judaism by various incipient neo-colonial powers.Trade Review“Decolonial Judaism is both an intellectual tour-de-force and a pointed critique of the Jewish historical story presented primarily as a Western European event … . In the contemporary moment where colonialism still hovers in the background and decolonialism continues to chart a new and richer redirection in Western thought, Slabodsky’s Decolonial Judaism is an important contribution to this project.” (Steven Leonard Jacobs, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43 (04), December, 2017)“This is an extraordinary book. It’s perhaps even ironic and poignant, given the rising antisemitism under a turn to the right in the USA, the UK, and France … . Slabodsky takes such problems head on through a creative and provocative synthesis of theories from the global south. … as this book shows, it should also do so at methodological levels, as the sources, approach, and modes of argumentation are fine exemplars of … the creolization of theory.” (Caribbean Philosophical Association Frantz Fanon Prize 2017 recipients, caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org, January, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Past Was Worse (and We Miss It) 1. Jewish Thought, Postcolonialism, and Decoloniality: The Geo-Politics of a Barbaric Encounter 2. The Narrative of Barbarism: Western Designs for a Globalized North 3. Negative Barbarism: Marxist Counter-Narrative in the Provincial North 4. Transitional Barbarism: Levinas's Counter-Narrative and the Global South 5. Positive Barbarism: Memmi's Counter-Narrative in a Southern Network 6. Barbaric Paradoxes: Zionism from the Standpoint of the Borderlands 7. After 9/11: New Barbarism and the Legacies in the Global South Epilogue: Duped by Jewish Suffering (Analectical Interjections)

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Book SynopsisHinduism has become a vital 'other' for Judaism over the past decades. The book surveys the history of the relationship from historical to contemporary times, from travellers to religious leadership. It explores the potential enrichment for Jewish theology and spirituality, as well as the challenges for Jewish identity.Trade Review“This book by Alon Goshen-Gottstein is a wonderful contribution, as it comes at the right time – when awareness about pluralism and its effects is continuing to increase, especially in the Western context. … I feature this book because I found it enlightening.” (Lefrandy Praditya, Current Dialogue, Vol. 74 (5), December, 2022)'Alon Goshen-Gottstein is an important, world class pioneer in developing Judaism's approach to other religions. In this book, he gives us deeper insight into Hinduism and Judaism. This book will help enable readers to connect to and learn from one of the oldest religions in human history. Such understanding is essential to the credibility and standing of Judaism as a world religion.' - Irving GreenbergTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Situating the Project - Personal and Collective Dimensions 2. The Hindu-Jewish Encounter - The Present Context 3. The Jews of India - What Can We Learn from Them? 4. Sarmad the Jew - A Precursor of the Encounter 5. Judaism(s) and Hinduism(s) 6. Judaism and Hinduism - Insights from the Comparative Study of Religion 7. The Passage to India, The Quest for Spirituality 8. Saints - Encountering the Divine in Humanity 9. The Wisdom of India - Ancient Images and Contemporary Challenges 10. The Encounter Within: Hinduism and Configurations of Jewish Identity 11. The Encounter Becomes Official: Hindu-Jewish Summits 12. Hinduism and a Jewish Theology of Religions 13. Summary and a Personal Epilogue

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Book SynopsisJules Simon is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. He is the co-editor of The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust: Salvaging the Fragments (Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2009). Professor Simon is on the editorial board and works as book editor for the Rosenzweig Jahrbuch/Yearbook.Trade Review"Art and Responsibility is a sophisticated exploration of the ethical implications of the aesthetic and the aesthetic implications of the ethical. Simon explores this topic through a phenomenological investigation of the thought of Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Instead of producing an intellectual history of these thinkers, the author seeks to elicit the ethical repercussions of their philosophies of art through careful philological-textual analysis of their dense writings. The juxtaposition of these two seminal German thinkers has engendered a fascinating study that undoubtedly will provoke lively discussion and debate in the years to come." --Elliot R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Mask of Mephistopheles 2. Renewing Narrations or Chaos in Creation 3. Rosenzweig's Midrash as Philosophy of Language 4. The Messianic Aesthetic 5. Heidegger's Hammer: from the Workshop to the Work of Art 6. Turning through Phenomenology to Art and Ethos 7. Philosophy, Poetry, and the Absent God: Final Words Bibliography

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