A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy : Volume II: the Birth of Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Philosophical Foundation for Jewish Studies -- A. The Association (Verein) for the Culture and Scientific Study of Jewry -- B. Eduard Gans -- C. Immanuel Wolf -- D. Leopold Zunz -- Chapter Two The Science of History, Philosophy of History, and Reestablishing Judaism as the Religion of Reason -- A. Historical Development -- B. Judaism as "Religion of Spirit": The Teaching of Solomon Formstecher -- C. Judaism as Ethical-Religious Commitment: The Teaching of Samuel Hirsch -- D. Reform in the Mode of "Religious Feeling": The Influence of Friedrich Schleiermacher on Abraham Geiger -- Chapter Three The Political Philosophy of the National Haskalah Movement in Eastern Europe -- A. Introduction -- B. Adapting the Doctrine of Interfaith Tolerance in the Secular State: The Teaching of R. Isaac Baer Levinsohn -- C. The Attack on the Rabbinic Establishment: Spinoza's Influence on the Radical Hebrew Haskalah -- Chapter Four Revealed Torah and Kant's Critical Idealism -- A. Introductory Remarks -- B. The Dialogue between R. Judah Halevi's Teaching and the Critical Philosophy of Locke and Kant in the Thought of Samuel David Luzzatto -- C. Revelation and the Critique of Reason: The Philosophy of Salomon Ludwig Steinheim -- D. Discovering the Inner Light of Torah: The Teaching of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch -- Chapter Five Adaptation and Growth of the Inner Space of Torah in Response to Humanism -- A. Introduction -- B. Ultra-Orthodox Nationalism in Response to Reform: Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer -- C. Systematic Grounding and Enrichment of Orthodoxy in Response to Humanism: The Teaching of the Malbim -- D. Developing the Halakhic Alternative to Hasidism and Haskalah:The Students of the Vilna Gaon -- Chapter Six The Torah and the People: "Positive Historical" Judaism -- A. Introduction.

B. The General Social and Philosophical-Historical Background of the Conservative Movement: The Influence of Herder and Savigny -- C. Adapting Halakha to the Needs and Will of the People: Zechariah Frankel's Doctrine -- D. Divine Providence and Ethical Mission in Jewish History:The Teaching of Heinrich Graetz -- Chapter Seven The Drive for Unity in the East-European Haskalah and the Turn to Zionism -- A. Introduction -- B. Defense of Hasidism and Halakha from a Maskilic Point of View: The Peace Making of Eliezer Zweifel -- C. Relation of Religion and Nation in Judaism and the Way to Spiritual Zionism: The Peregrinations of Peretz Smolenskin's Thought -- D. The Dawn of Religious Nationalism: Jehiel Michal Pines -- E. From "Spiritual Nationality" to Secular "Natural Nationality": Exacerbating the Controversy in the Teaching of Moses Leib Lilienblum -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of modern Jewish thought, Volume 2 (of 5) covers the major thinkers of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish religious movements and the east-European Haskalah, with extensive primary source excerpts.

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