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This book examines how some modern and contemporary Jewish thinkers and writers have imagined a Judaism without the
boundaries and restrictions that go by the name of "religion." The book offers scholarly insights into some Jewish thinkers-notably Martin Buber and Eugene Borowitz, some Jewish writers-in particular the poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik and the Yiddish author I.L. Peretz.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Preface: Before the Fall Chapter 2 Introduction: Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin Buber Chapter 3 Theology Without Religion: Chapter 4 Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and Responses to the Holocaust Chapter 5 A Possibility for Deconstruction of Revelation: The Case of Eugene B. Borowitz Chapter 6 Visions of the Messiah in Poetry, Theology, and Mysticism Chapter 7 Jewish Culture Without Religion: Chapter 8 Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural Zionism Chapter 9 Anthological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish Book Chapter 10 Bialik, Agnon, and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual Quest Chapter 11 Jewish Ethics Without Religion: Chapter 12 Negotiation as Theology: Reflections on Stories by I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, and Martin Buber Chapter 13 Considerations of Eisik ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I.L. Peretz, and the Meaning of Circumcision Chapter 14 The Limits of Covenant Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld, and the Subversive in Peretz Chapter 15 Selected Bibliography Chapter 16 Index
About the author
S. Daniel Breslauer is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas.
