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"This subtle and nuanced study is clearly Fackenheim s most important book." Paul Mendes-Flohr

..". magnificent in sweep and in execution of detail." Franklin H. Littell

In To Mend the World Emil L. Fackenheim points the way to Judaism s renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notions about God, humanity, and revelation have been severely challenged. He tests the resources within Judaism for healing the breach between secularism and revelation after the Holocaust. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, Hegel, Heidegger, and Buber figure prominently in his account.

In 1926 Martin Buber published a groundbreaking essay titled "The Man of Today and the Jewish Bible." Reprinted numerous times since, that essay has helped several generations of Jews and Christians to find a believing contact with what to Christians is the Old Testament and to Jews, the Ta'nach. More than sixty years later the task must be redone. The Central European intellectuals of whom Buber wrote in 1926 were disillusioned with modern secularism. Jews of today, having suffered the Holocaust and experienced the rise of the State of Israel, must find new ways to make meaningful contact...