Franz Rosenzweig is one of the greatest contributors to Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and is, with Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel, one of the Jewish thinkers most widely read by Christians. On Jewish Learning collects essays, speeches, and letters that express Rosenzweig's desire to reconnect the profound truths of Judaism with the lives of ordinary people. An assimilated Jew and scholar of German philosophy, Rosenzweig was on the point of conversion to Christianity when the experience of a Yom Kippur service in 1913 brought him back to Judaism, and he began to study...

This collection of 700 letters traces Martin Buber's transition from mystically inclined man of letters to teacher of his people who preached a renewed sense of community, a binational Palestinian homeland and a humanistic socialism derived from the Gospel's and the Old Testament prophets.

Auch diese Erzhlung Samuel Joseph Agnons (geboren 1888 in Galizien, gestorben 1970 in Jerusalem), eines der wichtigsten hebrischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts, der 1966, zusammen mit Nelly Sachs, den Nobelpreis fr Literatur erhielt, fhrt uns nach Schibbusch, in die galizische Heimat des Schriftstellers - und in die Zeit der Auseinandersetzung zwischen den Chassidim und ihren gesetzestreuen Widersachern, den Mitnagdim.