George Y Kohler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1162728 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | George Y Kohler |
| NOMBRES | George Y |
| APELLIDO | Kohler |
| FIRMA | KOHLER G Y |
| AFILIACIONES | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3795-302X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
How Early Reform Rabbis Used the Talmud to Achieve Religious Equality for Jewish Women
The Talmudic Rabbi as Triage Officer
The essay outlines a four-phase triage process made by a fictive Talmudic rabbi working on an equally fictive hospital COVID-19 ward. The rabbi bases his decision on four different Talmudic texts, proceeding one by one, with each text building on the preceding one, until he is ready to allocate his scarce medical resources to one of the patients, thus being forced to deny them to others. Along the way, the paper will examine how this Talmudic rea…
Moses Mendelssohn as an Influence on Hermann Cohen's "Idiosyncratic" Reading of Maimonides' Ethics
Surprisingly, there are at least three major theological subjects where Hermann Cohen seems to agree with Mendelssohn-against standard Jewish Reform theology. Even more interesting: All three points stand in connection with the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1137-1204), the medieval halakhist and philosopher, whose radical theological ideas Mendelssohn mostly rejected and Cohen generally adopted. Should this observation be true, however, …
Die Vernünftigkeit des jüdischen Dogmas
“The Pattern for Jewish Reformation”
The widespread Jewish sympathies for Lessing’s pre-Hegelian, pro-Jewish, progressive Deism from the Education of the Human Race spurred some Jewish authors to return to and discuss Lessing’s religious thought within the theological endeavors of the Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth-century Germany. To be able to rely on Lessing, even retroactively, was welcome proof for Jewish Reformers that the humanistic approach to religious problems th…
Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880)
In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend of Wissenschaft’s neglect for the mystic traditions of Judaism is no longer sustainable. However, the true extent of this enterprise of German Jewish scholars is not yet known. This book will give an overview of what the leading figures hav…
Yehuda Halevi's Kuzari and the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1840-1865)
The rediscovery of medieval Jewish philosophy of religion as a model for a modern concept of Judaism was largely the work of several nineteenth-century scholars belonging to the movement for a Wissenschaft des Judentums, commencing in the 1820s in Germany. This study provides an account of the first critical-academic reception of Yehuda Halevi's twelfth-century work Sefer ha-Kuzari within the Wissenschaft movement between the years 1840 and 1865.…
Scholasticism Is a Daughter of Judaism
This article retells the surprising discovery of a considerable Jewish influence on Christian scholasticism in the Middle Ages. While most students of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas knew that both had read Jewish philosophy, only the rediscovery of especially Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed by Jewish philosophers in the nineteenth century showed the whole extent of the scholastics' dependence on Jewish predecessors - especially where the…
Rabbi Max Joseph
The essay analyses the exceptional life and thought of the German Rabbi Max Joseph (1868–1950), who was at the same time an ardent Zionist and the follower of a non-orthodox, academic approach to Judaism. It shows that Joseph anticipated most formative elements of Jewish thought during the twentieth century and that his claim about the Jewish religion, depending on Zionism for its very survival in modernity, is a powerful and original statement u…
Moses as a Superhuman
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
T reitschke, H einrich von (1834–96)
This entry describes the academic and political career and opinions of the Prussian court historian Heinrich von Treitschke, placing special emphasis on the great public debate about the national integration of German Jewry from 1880. Treitschke provoked this controversy with several antisemite remarks published in a political journal article. Although in line with his well‐known pro‐Prussian, chauvinistic, and culturally hegemonic views, the art…
Der jüdische Messianismus im Zeitalter der Emanzipation
During the first half of the 19th century, traditional Jewish conceptions of the Messiah underwent a profound reinterpretation. In place of the vision of a messianic king, new ideas arose about an ideal world. G. Kohler demonstrates that this new reading of Jewish messianism did not originate from the works of the philosopher Hermann Cohen, but instead, had already arisen during the 1840s.
Platzmachen für Gott« – Else Lasker-Schüler , Rabbiner Kurt Wilhelm und der religiöse Liberalismus in Palästina
The article traces the involvement of the German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker-Schüler in the diverse activities of the only non-orthodox community in Jerusalem of the 1940s and its founding rabbi, Kurt Wilhelm – himself also a German immigrant. It further demonstrates how Rabbi Wilhelm attempted to transfer to Palestine the tenets of German Jewish liberalism: education, religious tolerance, humanism and meaningful religious services, and how the Eu…
Is there a God an sich
Several scholars have noted the affinity of the German Orthodox thinker Isaac Breuer (1883–1946) for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In fact, legend has it that Breuer had two large pictures hanging over the desk in his study: one of his grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch and, next to it, a picture of the philosopher from Königsberg, as if in perfect harmony. Just as Maimonides, eight hundred years earlier, had tried to reconcile the biblical Mos…
Dieter Adelmann, "Reinige dein Denken" - Uber den judischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen
Journal Article Dieter Adelmann, “Reinige dein Denken” - Über den jüdischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen Get access Dieter Adelmann, “Reinige dein Denken” - Über den jüdischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen, Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben, ergänzt und mit einem einleitenden Vorwort versehen von Görge K. Hasselhoff ( Würzburg Königshausen + Neumann Pub.: 2010), 351 pp. George Y. Kohler George Y. Kohler Ben Gurion Un…
Finding God’s Purpose
The most important Jewish source for Hermann Cohen’s rational theology of Judaism is Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. Indeed, the Guide is of such importance that Cohen bases his entire idealistic interpretation of the Jewish religion on it. In particular, Cohen derives his discussion of the continued authority of Mosaic law from the Guide. What follows focuses on Cohen’s discussion of the “Law” in his Religion of Reason out of the Sources of …
Moshe Halbertal
Am HaSefer [Volk des Buches]
German Spirit and Holy Ghost--Treitschke's Call for Conversion of German Jewry
The “great debate on antisemitism” as Michael A. Meyer called the public dispute initiated by the German historian Heinrich von Treitschke in 1879 is generally seen as a debate on nationality.1 In November of that year, Treitschke published in his own political journal, Preussische Jahrbücher, an article that deals on its very last pages with what was then seen as the “Jewish Question.”2 According to Treitschke, the “deep and long lasting anger” …
Josef Albo (um 1380-1444)
Reviewed by: Josef Albo (um 1380–1444): J ̈dische Philosophie und christliche Kontroverstheologie in der frühen Neuzeit George Kohler Sina Rauschenbach . Josef Albo (um 1380–1444): Jüdische Philosophie und christliche Kontroverstheologie in der frühen Neuzeit. Studies in European Judaism 3. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xvii + 312. There are always only a few possible reasons why a book on a certain subject has not yet been written: no one had the ide…
Is there a God an sich
Several scholars have noted the affinity of the German Orthodox thinker Isaac Breuer (1883–1946) for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In fact, legend has it that Breuer had two large pictures hanging over the desk in his study: one of his grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch and, next to it, a picture of the philosopher from Königsberg, as if in perfect harmony. Just as Maimonides, eight hundred years earlier, had tried to reconcile the biblical Mos…
Josef Albo (um 1380-1444)
Reviewed by: Josef Albo (um 1380–1444): J ̈dische Philosophie und christliche Kontroverstheologie in der frühen Neuzeit George Kohler Sina Rauschenbach . Josef Albo (um 1380–1444): Jüdische Philosophie und christliche Kontroverstheologie in der frühen Neuzeit. Studies in European Judaism 3. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xvii + 312. There are always only a few possible reasons why a book on a certain subject has not yet been written: no one had the ide…
Finding God’s Purpose
The most important Jewish source for Hermann Cohen’s rational theology of Judaism is Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. Indeed, the Guide is of such importance that Cohen bases his entire idealistic interpretation of the Jewish religion on it. In particular, Cohen derives his discussion of the continued authority of Mosaic law from the Guide. What follows focuses on Cohen’s discussion of the “Law” in his Religion of Reason out of the Sources of …
Moshe Halbertal
Am HaSefer [Volk des Buches]
German Spirit and Holy Ghost--Treitschke's Call for Conversion of German Jewry
The “great debate on antisemitism” as Michael A. Meyer called the public dispute initiated by the German historian Heinrich von Treitschke in 1879 is generally seen as a debate on nationality.1 In November of that year, Treitschke published in his own political journal, Preussische Jahrbücher, an article that deals on its very last pages with what was then seen as the “Jewish Question.”2 According to Treitschke, the “deep and long lasting anger” …
Dieter Adelmann, "Reinige dein Denken" - Uber den judischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen
Journal Article Dieter Adelmann, “Reinige dein Denken” - Über den jüdischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen Get access Dieter Adelmann, “Reinige dein Denken” - Über den jüdischen Hintergrund der Philosophie von Hermann Cohen, Aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben, ergänzt und mit einem einleitenden Vorwort versehen von Görge K. Hasselhoff ( Würzburg Königshausen + Neumann Pub.: 2010), 351 pp. George Y. Kohler George Y. Kohler Ben Gurion Un…
Is there a God an sich
Several scholars have noted the affinity of the German Orthodox thinker Isaac Breuer (1883–1946) for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. In fact, legend has it that Breuer had two large pictures hanging over the desk in his study: one of his grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch and, next to it, a picture of the philosopher from Königsberg, as if in perfect harmony. Just as Maimonides, eight hundred years earlier, had tried to reconcile the biblical Mos…
Der jüdische Messianismus im Zeitalter der Emanzipation
During the first half of the 19th century, traditional Jewish conceptions of the Messiah underwent a profound reinterpretation. In place of the vision of a messianic king, new ideas arose about an ideal world. G. Kohler demonstrates that this new reading of Jewish messianism did not originate from the works of the philosopher Hermann Cohen, but instead, had already arisen during the 1840s.
Platzmachen für Gott« – Else Lasker-Schüler , Rabbiner Kurt Wilhelm und der religiöse Liberalismus in Palästina
The article traces the involvement of the German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker-Schüler in the diverse activities of the only non-orthodox community in Jerusalem of the 1940s and its founding rabbi, Kurt Wilhelm – himself also a German immigrant. It further demonstrates how Rabbi Wilhelm attempted to transfer to Palestine the tenets of German Jewish liberalism: education, religious tolerance, humanism and meaningful religious services, and how the Eu…
Moses as a Superhuman
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
T reitschke, H einrich von (1834–96)
This entry describes the academic and political career and opinions of the Prussian court historian Heinrich von Treitschke, placing special emphasis on the great public debate about the national integration of German Jewry from 1880. Treitschke provoked this controversy with several antisemite remarks published in a political journal article. Although in line with his well‐known pro‐Prussian, chauvinistic, and culturally hegemonic views, the art…
Rabbi Max Joseph
The essay analyses the exceptional life and thought of the German Rabbi Max Joseph (1868–1950), who was at the same time an ardent Zionist and the follower of a non-orthodox, academic approach to Judaism. It shows that Joseph anticipated most formative elements of Jewish thought during the twentieth century and that his claim about the Jewish religion, depending on Zionism for its very survival in modernity, is a powerful and original statement u…
Scholasticism Is a Daughter of Judaism
This article retells the surprising discovery of a considerable Jewish influence on Christian scholasticism in the Middle Ages. While most students of Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas knew that both had read Jewish philosophy, only the rediscovery of especially Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed by Jewish philosophers in the nineteenth century showed the whole extent of the scholastics' dependence on Jewish predecessors - especially where the…
Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880)
In recent years more and more scholars have become aware of the fact that the 19th century movement of the Wissenschaft des Judentums engaged in essential research of kabbalistic texts and thinkers. The legend of Wissenschaft’s neglect for the mystic traditions of Judaism is no longer sustainable. However, the true extent of this enterprise of German Jewish scholars is not yet known. This book will give an overview of what the leading figures hav…
Yehuda Halevi's Kuzari and the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1840-1865)
The rediscovery of medieval Jewish philosophy of religion as a model for a modern concept of Judaism was largely the work of several nineteenth-century scholars belonging to the movement for a Wissenschaft des Judentums, commencing in the 1820s in Germany. This study provides an account of the first critical-academic reception of Yehuda Halevi's twelfth-century work Sefer ha-Kuzari within the Wissenschaft movement between the years 1840 and 1865.…
Die Vernünftigkeit des jüdischen Dogmas
“The Pattern for Jewish Reformation”
The widespread Jewish sympathies for Lessing’s pre-Hegelian, pro-Jewish, progressive Deism from the Education of the Human Race spurred some Jewish authors to return to and discuss Lessing’s religious thought within the theological endeavors of the Wissenschaft des Judentums in nineteenth-century Germany. To be able to rely on Lessing, even retroactively, was welcome proof for Jewish Reformers that the humanistic approach to religious problems th…
Moses Mendelssohn as an Influence on Hermann Cohen's "Idiosyncratic" Reading of Maimonides' Ethics
Surprisingly, there are at least three major theological subjects where Hermann Cohen seems to agree with Mendelssohn-against standard Jewish Reform theology. Even more interesting: All three points stand in connection with the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1137-1204), the medieval halakhist and philosopher, whose radical theological ideas Mendelssohn mostly rejected and Cohen generally adopted. Should this observation be true, however, …
The Talmudic Rabbi as Triage Officer
The essay outlines a four-phase triage process made by a fictive Talmudic rabbi working on an equally fictive hospital COVID-19 ward. The rabbi bases his decision on four different Talmudic texts, proceeding one by one, with each text building on the preceding one, until he is ready to allocate his scarce medical resources to one of the patients, thus being forced to deny them to others. Along the way, the paper will examine how this Talmudic rea…
How Early Reform Rabbis Used the Talmud to Achieve Religious Equality for Jewish Women
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