Rabbis of Our Time: Authorities of Judaism in the Religious and Political Ferment of Modern Times

ISBN-13: 9780367870430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Marek Čejka; Roman Kořan

Opis

Rabbis of Our Time provides a comprehensive overview of the most influential rabbinical authorities of Judaism in the 20th and 21st Century. Through focussing on the most theologically influential rabbis of the contemporary era and examining their political impact, it opens a broader discussion of the relationship between Judais

Spis treści

1.Introduction 2.Who are rabbis? 3. Profiles of rabbinical authorities: Yisrael Abuhatzeira and Baruch Abuhatzeira, Avraham Mordechai Alter, Leo Baeck, Amram Blau and Ruth Blau, The Braslav Hasids and their rabbis, Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu, Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, Menachem Froman, Shlomo Goren, Abraham Yehoshua Heschel, Moshe Hirsch and Yisrael Meir Hirsch, Yitzhak Kaduri, Israel Meir Ha-Kohen/Kagan, Meir David Kahane and Benjamin Ze'ev Kahane, Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz – Chazon Ish, Avraham Yitzchak Ha-Kohen Kook and Tzvi Yehuda Kook, Yisrael Meir Lau, Moshe Levinger, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Elazar Menachem Man Shach, Joseph Dov Ha-Levi Soloveitchik, Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Yoel Teitelbaum, Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, Ovadia Yosef. 4. A collection of shorter profiles of several rabbis Arik W. Ascherman, Yehuda Leib Ha-Levi Ashlag, Ezra Attiya, Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin), Yehuda Berg, Elmer Berger, Joseph Samuel Bloch, Shmuel (Shmuley) Boteach, Moshe Feinstein, Yihyah Kafih and Yosef Kafih, Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, Harold Kushner, Berl Lazar, Michael Lerner, Dov Lior, Michael Melchior, Chaim Nahum, Yitzhak Nisim, Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, Aharon Roth, Yonathan Henry Sacks, Yedidia Shofet, Adin Steinsaltz, Menachem Mendel Taub, Ben Zion Meir Chai Uziel (Ouziel), Elchonon Wasserman, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Shalom Dovber Halevi Wolpo. 5. Some final thoughts instead of a conclusion

O autorze

Marek Čejka is a research scholar at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and Military History Institute in Brno, focusing on the Middle East, the relationship between religion and politics, international law, religious radicalism and terrorism.

Roman Kořan has extensive experience researching issues in Judaism, in particular Jewish Mysticism where he focuses primarily on the work of Rabbi Isaac Luria, as well as translating Hebrew texts.