updated December 5, 2004
(German-)Jewish History and Culture / Judaism - General Reference Works / Jewish Studies / Philosophy - General and Jewish / Hermann Cohen / Martin Buber / Franz Rosenzweig / Emmanuel Levinas
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Michael A. Meyer, German-Jewish
History in Modern Times (Columbia University Press)
[vols. 3 and 4 on reserve]
Volume 1: Tradition and Enlightenment
(1600-1780)
Volume 2: Emancipation and Acculturation
(1780-1871)
Volume 3: Integration in Dispute (1871-1918)
Volume 4: Renewal and Destruction (1918-1945)
The Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996 (1997), ed. Gilman/Zipes [book on reserve]
Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry (New York City / London / Jerusalem)
The Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) maintains a comprehensive collection of links called the Jewish History Resource Center.
www.compactmemory.de is an online archive of major German-Jewish periodicals of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
Biographical Information:
History of Zionism and Israel:
Revival of Hebrew:
History of Antisemitism:
R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Geoffrey Wigoder (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Judaism (New York/ London: Macmillan, 1989)
R. J. Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965)
Full text of the of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, published between 1901-1906.
The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, ed. Martin Goodman (2002).
Course listings for McMaster's Jewish Studies minor.
Jewish Studies programs at nearby universities: University of Toronto | York University | University of Waterloo
Academic and Library Links compiled by the Center for Judaic Studies Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory at the University of Duisburg.
RAMBI - Index of Articles in Jewish Studies, a computerized database maintained at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Print edition through 2000 in Mills Reference
The Association for Jewish Studies is the main North American organization in the field. Annual meetings take place in December; the upcoming meeting is in Chicago on December 19-21.
The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies maintains a list of Jewish Studies programs at Canadian universities.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a reliable reference work in the field.
To research secondary literature on a philosophical topic, consult the Philosopher's Index.
Textual Reasoning is the on-line journal of the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network, a (mostly North American) group of scholars interested in contemporary modes of Jewish thought.
The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) is the association of North American philosophers working in "Continental" (European) thought. See the program of its recent annual meeting to get a sense of the range of current research in this area.
The recently founded Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (CPJC) meets in conjunction with SPEP - Program of the recent meeting.
The American Philosophical Association is the main professional association of philosophers in North America.
There are many ways for students of philosophy to share their writing with a wider audience. A list of undergraduate philosophy journals, conferences, and essay contests is maintained by Ferit Güven of Earlham College.
The most comprehensive work on Cohen's philosophy currently available in English is Andrea Poma's The Critical Philosophy of Hermann Cohen (translated from Italian) [on reserve]
Michael Zank (Boston University) on "Reverberations of Hermann Cohen in Contemporary Jewish Philosophy" (1996)Hermann Cohen-Gesellschaft, linked to the Hermann Cohen Archive at the University of Zurich.
Hartwig Wiedebach's archive of documents relating to Hermann Cohen.
The Martin Buber Home Page (English version) maintained by Andreas Schmidt, who appears to be a computer programmer in Karlsruhe, Germany.
A handsome illustrated introduction to Buber's life and work, from an "interpersonal communications" perspective, has been prepared by members of the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Washington. It seems that they were able to draw on recollections and archival material from Maurice Friedman, Buber's biographer.
Michael Zank, "Martin Buber" (2004) in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Martin Buber-Gesellschaft, founded in Heidelberg in 2000, and its journal, Im Gespräch (publisher's info)
Arnold Betz, Franz Rosenzweig. His Life and Works. (Exhibit and Essay). This site at the Divinity Library, Vanderbilt University, draws on Nahum Glatzer's collection of Rosenzweig documents. Glatzer was an associate of Rosenzweig's in Frankfurt who later taught at Brandeis University and made some key works by Rosenzweig available in English for the first time. [This is one of the required readings for Week 7.]
Full-text edition of Rosenzweig's Stern der Erlösung edited by Albert Raffelt of the University of Freiburg.
Facsimile edition of Rosenzweig's Hegel und der Staat produced by Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: vol. 1 | vol. 2
Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, a society of scholars devoted to the study of Rosenzweig.
New translation of Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption, by Barbara E. Galli, forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press.
Two book-length guides to Rosenzweig's Star are Stéphane Mosès, System and Revelation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig, trans. Catherine Tihanyi (1982; Wayne State UP, 1992) [book on reserve] and Norbert Samuelson, A User's Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's "Star of Redemption" (Curzon, 1999) [both books on reserve]
Emmanuel Levinas's two major essays on Rosenzweig are "Between Two Worlds" (1959) in Difficult Freedom. Essays on Judaism, trans. S. Hand (1963/1976; Johns Hopkins UP, 1990) and "Franz Rosenzweig: A Modern Jewish Thinker" (1965) in Outside the Subject, trans. Michael B. Smith (1987; Stanford UP, 1993) [both books on reserve]
A comprehensive bibliography that covers works published until 1989 is L. Anckaert/B. Casper, Franz Rosenzweig. A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Leuven: Bibliotheek van de Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid van de K.U. Leuven, 1990). [available at Robarts library, U of Toronto]
A page on Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, with whom Rosenzweig corresponded about "Judaism and Christianity."
Michael Zank, "The Rosenzweig–Rosenstock Triangle, Or, What Can We Learn From Letters to Gritli? A Review Essay." in Modern Judaism 23.1 (2003) 74-98 [available online to McMaster affiliates]
A good introduction to Levinas's philosophy is Adriaan Peperzak, To the Other (Purdue University Press, 1993) [available for purchase and on reserve]
Emmanuel Levinas Web Page by Peter Atterton of San Diego State University.
Institut d'études lévinassiennes in Jerusalem, which maintains an online primary and secondary bibliography and publishes the Cahiers d'études lévinassiennes.
A comprehensive bibliography that covers works published until 1989 is Roger Burggraeve, Emmanuel Levinas. Une bibliographie primaire et secondaire (1929-1985) avec complément 1985-1989 (Leuven: Peeters, 1990) [available at Robarts Library, U of Toronto]
Martin Heidegger et l'ontologie (excerpted) / "Martin Heidegger and Ontology" (1932), Levinas's earliest essay on Heidegger. (To be distinguished from the better-known "Is Ontology Fundamental?" (1951].)
full text of "Quelques réflexions sur la philosophie de l'hitlérisme" (1934)
There are some photographs of Levinas in the Picture Album of Phenomenologists compiled by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.
Read up on "Phenomenology" in the article by Lester Embree in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy [online/Mills Reference]
The question "What Is Phenomenology?" is addressed at the website of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.See also the Encyclopedia of Phenomenology published by CARP, in Mills Reference.
There are two noteworthy websites on Edmund Husserl:
The site of the Husserl Archives in Leuven (Belgium)
"Ereignis" is a site devoted to the life and work of Martin Heidegger.
One of Heidegger's grandsons, Burghard Heidegger, has also begun a rudimentary site in German.
Centre des études heideggeriennes, founded in 2002 by Alfred Denker, Holger Zaborowski, and Daniel Ferrer.
What better way to deepen your thinking about a philosopher than to enter into a conversation with him or her in person? For a time during 2000-2001, Martin Heidegger was appearing on the Montreal-based Dialogus website and entertained questions in French and English. Will someone find a way to bring him back? (To learn more about participating in the Dialogus project, see here.)
