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  title info:
    title: Reinventing Maimonides in contemporary Jewish thought
  name:
    name part: Diamond, James Arthur
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Kellner, Menachem Marc
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead's famous dictum that the entire European philosophical tradition 'consists of a series of footnotes to Plato' could equally characterize Maimonides' place in the Jewish tradition. The critical studies in this volume explore how Orthodox rabbis of different orientations, Shlomo Aviner, Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin (Netziv), Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Joseph Kafih, Abraham Isaac Kook, Aaron Kotler, Joseph Soloveitchik and Elhanan Wasserman, have read and provided footnotes to Maimonides in the long twentieth century. How well did they really understand Maimonides? And where do their arguments fit in the mainstream debates about him and his works? Each of the seven core chapters examines a particular approach. Some rabbis have tried to liberate themselves from the influence of his ideas. Others have sought to build on those ideas or expand them in ways which Maimonides himself did not pursue, and which he may well not have agreed with. Still others advance patently non-Maimonidean positions, while attributing them to none other than Maimonides. Above all, the essays published here demonstrate that his legacy remains vibrantly alive today.
  table of contents: Rabbi Naftali Tsevi Yehudah Berlin: the love of Israel versus the love of the mind / James A. Diamond -- Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Maimonides / Menachem Kellner -- Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and the mystification of Maimonidean rationalism / James A. Diamond -- Maimonides and Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira: abandoning reason in the Warsaw Ghetto / James A. Diamond -- Rabbi Elhanan Wasserman on Maimonides, and Maimonides on 'Reb Elhanan' / Menachem Kellner -- Each generation and its Maimonides: the Maimonides of Rabbi Aharon Kotler / Menachem Kellner -- What, not who, is a Jew: Halevi-Maimonides in those days, Rabbi Aviner and Rabbi Kafih in our day / Menachem Kellner.
  note: James A. Diamond and Menachem Kellner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-226) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Maimonides, Moses
      name part: 1135-1204
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Jewish philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Rabbis
  classification: BM755.M6 D53 2019
  classification: 296.1/81
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
  identifier: 1906764956
  identifier: 9781906764951
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 160331
    record change date: 20190718165524.0
    record identifier: in00004065285