A Goy Who Studies Torah: Two Unpublished Sources by Ernst Simon and Gershom Scholem on the Spiritual Legacy of Franz Rosenzweig
In the early 1930s, Franz Rosenzweig’s work was celebrated, criticized and questioned for its relevance within the specific cultural, religious and philosophical preoccupations of the inhabitants of pre-state Israel. This could be seen in nuce at the opening of the Schocken Library in Jerusalem in D...
| Published in: | Naharaim |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018
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Naharaim
Year: 2018, Volume: 12, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 197-224 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929
/ Reception
/ Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982
/ Simon, Akiva Ernsṭ 1899-1988
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Franz Rosenzweig
Gershom Scholem
Ernst Simon
Mandatory Palestine
Zionism
reception history
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| Summary: | In the early 1930s, Franz Rosenzweig’s work was celebrated, criticized and questioned for its relevance within the specific cultural, religious and philosophical preoccupations of the inhabitants of pre-state Israel. This could be seen in nuce at the opening of the Schocken Library in Jerusalem in December 1936 that was marked by a celebratory conference dedicated to the memory of Franz Rosenzweig. The evening featured a collection of four lectures held in Hebrew by eminent German-Jewish scholars: Ernst Simon, Julius Guttmann, Hugo Bergmann and Gershom Scholem. Simon and Scholem’s lectures in particular put forward two strikingly different views on Rosenzweig’s possible Nachleben in the yishuv. The article is followed by Scholem’s hitherto unpublished lecture (both in the original Hebrew and in English translation) and Simon’s German summary of his own contribution that evening. |
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| ISSN: | 1862-9156 |
| Contains: | In: Naharaim
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/naha-2018-0010 |