| Judaism in a Secular Age: An Anthology
of Secular Humanistic Jewish Thought |
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- Renee Kogel and Zev Katz, editors
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Where can Secular and Humanistic Jews turn for serious inspiration?
Religious Jews seek to validate their beliefs in traditional Jewish
texts like Torah and Talmud, texts that, though of historic interest,
can hardly serve the purpose. Now, for the first time, an anthology
designed to meet that need has been assembled. . . .
Here you can find
the secular voices that the enormous transformations of the Enlightenment
allowed to be heard. These thinkers can be divided into three
groups -- those who first tried to think about Judaism and Jewishness
in new ways. These include Theodor Herzl, Mordecai Kaplan and
Albert Einstein. The second group is made up of such writers and
thinkers as Ahad Haam, Sigmund Freud, Simon Dubnow and Hannah
Arendt, who identified themselves as Secular and/or Humanistic
Jews. Finally, there are those who laid the philosophical groundwork
for Humanistic Judaism in [the 20th] century -- Americans such
as Sherwin Wine and Dan Friedman, Europeans such as Albert Memmi,
and Israelis like Yehuda Bauer and Zev Katz. Political theorists
to novelists, including Hebraists, Yiddishists, Zionists, socialists,
Labor-Zionists, and more are included in this wide-ranging collection.
This volume will be of interest not only to those
who are already committed to Humanistic Judaism, but to those
secular, unaffiliated Jews who do not know that such an option
exists and who are searching for ways to remain Jewish. Students
of secular Jewish thought in Modern times will find this volume
invaluable.
[Note by the publisher]
New York: Ktav, 1995. ISBN 0-88125-519-X
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