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:

• Dictionary of Jewish Biography, ed. G. Wigoder

• if you're looking for quick information on a Jewish individual, you may want to consult the list of short biographies at the Jewish Virtual Library (sponsored by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise)

History of Zionism and Israel:

• Materials compiled by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• In 1998 a special issue of the journal Modern Judaism reflected on 100 years of Zionism and 50 years of Israeli statehood.
• Journal of Israel Studies

Revival of Hebrew:

•  Academy of the Hebrew Language (Israel's official Hebrew language authority)

History of Antisemitism:

• "The 'Jewish Question' in German Speaking Countries, 1848-1914. A Bibliography" is a searchable database produced as part of The Felix Posen Bibiliographic Project on Antisemitism, a project of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
• Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin.

JUDAISM - GENERAL REFERENCE WORKS

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.

JEWISH STUDIES

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, 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 next meeting is in San Diego on December 17-19, 2006.

The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies / Association des études juives canadiennes also meets annually at the Congress.

PHILOSOPHY - GENERAL AND JEWISH

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a reliable reference work in the field.  The 1998 print edition is also in Mills Reference.

To research secondary literature on a philosophical author or topic, consult the Philosopher's Index.

The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) is the association of North American philosophers working in "Continental" (European) thought. Program of upcoming annual meeting on October 12-14 in Philadelphia.

The recently founded Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context (CPJC) meets annually in conjunction with SPEP - Program of the upcoming meeting.

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 Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy meets annually at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The American Philosophical Association is the main professional association of philosophers in North America.

Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology holds regular meetings of its own and special sessions at SPEP.

HERMANN COHEN AND NEO-KANTIANISM

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 / available to McMaster affiliates via netlibrary]

Hermann Cohen-Gesellschaft, linked to the Hermann Cohen Archive at the University of Zurich.

Hartwig Wiedebach's archive of documents relating to Hermann Cohen.

Website of Lydia Patton, a researcher working on Cohen and Neo-Kantianism.

MARTIN BUBER

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)

FRANZ ROSENZWEIG

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]

PHENOMENOLOGY (HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER)

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 Husserl Page, maintained at the University of Kentucky
• The site of the Husserl Archives in Leuven (Belgium)

Husserl Archives, New School for Social Research, including a new Internet publication project, "On the Future of Husserlian Phenomenology"

"Ereignis" is a site devoted to the life and work of Martin Heidegger.

"Wegweiser durch die Heidegger-Literatur." Resource page maintained by the University of Freiburg library, including a bibliography of secondary literature.

http://www.heidegger.org is maintained by one of Heidegger's grandsons, Burghard Heidegger.

Centre des études heideggeriennes, founded in 2002 by Alfred Denker, Holger Zaborowski, and Daniel Ferrer.  Denker and Ferrer also maintain the site http://www.martin-heidegger.org.

40th Annual North American Heidegger Conference, Boston University, May 5-6, 2006.

Heidegger Studies / Heidegger Studien / Etudes Heideggeriennes, Duncker & Humblot.

Heidegger-Jahrbuch, Verlag Karl Alber.

Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, Vittorio Klostermann. Contents compiled by Ferrer/Denker.  Contents, with some links to English translations, from "Ereignis."

List of Courses and Seminars, compiled by Alfred Denker.

The Ister (2004), a film by David Barison and Daniel Ross

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.)

EMMANUEL LEVINAS

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.

The North American Levinas Society was founded and held its first meeting in 2006.

A Century with Levinas - a series of events worldwide during 2006 commemorating the 100th anniversary of Levinas's birth. 

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.

On Levinas's Talmudic readings and other "confessional" writings:

• full text of "The Jewish Understanding of Scripture"  (1977).  This is a translation of "De la lecture juive des Écritures" (from L'Au-delà du verset [1982]).  This translation by Joseph Cunneen was published in Cross-Currents vol. 44, no. 4 (Winter 1994/1995).  A different translation appears in the book Beyond the Verse (1994), trans. Gary D. Mole.

• In the February 1998 issue of Modern Judaism, Lawrence Kaplan discusses the Talmudic reading entitled "The Temptation of Temptation," announcing that "The time has come to take the title and, even more important, the form of Emmanuel Levinas's Lectures Talmudiques, Talmudic Readings, seriously." [available on-line to McMaster affiliates]

• In the February 2000 issue of Modern Judaism, Jacob Meskin reflects on the relationship between the "philosophical" and "confessional" writings in an article entitled "Toward a New Understanding of the Work of Emmanuel Levinas."

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