Judah Isseroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judah Isseroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judah |
| FAMILY NAME | Isseroff |
| SIGNATURE | ISSEROFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1240-3419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Christian Origins of Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Given
This article reassesses the iconographic rendering of Hannah Arendt’s Jewishness as an exclusive matter of experience. It attends to her 1929 dissertation on Saint Augustine, Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin, and finds that it is in this frequently overlooked text where Arendt affirmatively discovered her Judaism amid a confrontation with Christian theology. In particular, I illuminate the role of the concept of givenness in Der Liebesbegriff. This…
Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical relationship inherent in God's election of Israel. With Benjamin, I emphasize the importance of contingency, v…
High Heels as Hammers: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theological Analogy
Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt have been read together in several studies in previous years. They make an intriguing pair because Arendt appears to share a good deal of Schmitt's diagnosis concerning the modern crisis of legitimacy, while also departing radically from his political conclusions. This article frames the Arendt-Schmitt encounter, real or imagined, in terms of the role of analogy in the discourse of political theology. Schmitt's poli…
American Judaism between Religion and Race: Reflections on Mordecai Kaplan and Jewish Whiteness
Mordecai Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization (1934) is most often read as Kaplan's effort at a rapprochement between Judaism and America. In contrast to conventional readings of that work, this article highlights Kaplan's suspicion of America, and liberal modernity more generally, by engaging with his analysis of the categories of religion and race. Kaplan, I argue, is haunted by the prospect that in adopting either of these categories, American J…
American Judaism between Religion and Race: Reflections on Mordecai Kaplan and Jewish Whiteness
Mordecai Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization (1934) is most often read as Kaplan's effort at a rapprochement between Judaism and America. In contrast to conventional readings of that work, this article highlights Kaplan's suspicion of America, and liberal modernity more generally, by engaging with his analysis of the categories of religion and race. Kaplan, I argue, is haunted by the prospect that in adopting either of these categories, American J…
American Judaism between Religion and Race: Reflections on Mordecai Kaplan and Jewish Whiteness
Mordecai Kaplan's Judaism as a Civilization (1934) is most often read as Kaplan's effort at a rapprochement between Judaism and America. In contrast to conventional readings of that work, this article highlights Kaplan's suspicion of America, and liberal modernity more generally, by engaging with his analysis of the categories of religion and race. Kaplan, I argue, is haunted by the prospect that in adopting either of these categories, American J…
Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical relationship inherent in God's election of Israel. With Benjamin, I emphasize the importance of contingency, v…
High Heels as Hammers: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theological Analogy
Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt have been read together in several studies in previous years. They make an intriguing pair because Arendt appears to share a good deal of Schmitt's diagnosis concerning the modern crisis of legitimacy, while also departing radically from his political conclusions. This article frames the Arendt-Schmitt encounter, real or imagined, in terms of the role of analogy in the discourse of political theology. Schmitt's poli…
The Christian Origins of Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Given
This article reassesses the iconographic rendering of Hannah Arendt’s Jewishness as an exclusive matter of experience. It attends to her 1929 dissertation on Saint Augustine, Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin, and finds that it is in this frequently overlooked text where Arendt affirmatively discovered her Judaism amid a confrontation with Christian theology. In particular, I illuminate the role of the concept of givenness in Der Liebesbegriff. This…
Epistemology (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Analogy (1 works) · Antisemitism (1 works)