Abraham P Socher
Biographic Data
| ID | 495497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham P Socher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham P |
| FAMILY NAME | Socher |
| SIGNATURE | SOCHER A P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
Chapter 13: My Initial Aversion to Belle Lettres and My Ensuing Conversion.Departure from Berlin
Localized Scleroderma of the Head and Face Area: A Retrospective Cross-sectional Study of 96 Patients from 5 German Tertiary Referral Centres
Themes, methods and scope of study exemplified and described. Maimon's literary and intellectual style. Chapter 1 Maimon's & Life History Maimon's life and the light it sheds on 18th Century Judaism, including Lithuanian Rabbinic culture, Hasidism, and Haskala. Maimon's relationships with Mendelssohn, the Maggid of Miedzerycz and others. Accounts of Maimon's final years. A heretic's burial. Chapter 2 Maimon's Medieval Desire: The Hesheq Shelomo I…
The Saint in the Drawing Room
The Saint in the Drawing Room Abraham Socher on “saints and saintliness” (1905)1 Sometime around 1903 Solomon Schechter was provoked by a woman, whom he somewhat archly described as “a lady of the Jewish persuasion, of high culture and wide reading.” She had remarked that Judaism is the only one among the great religions which has never produced a saint, and that there is, indeed, no room in it for that element of saintliness which, in other cree…
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy
With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Solomon Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Immanuel Kant, charmed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and inspired…
Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism: A Critical Note
Response to Samuel Moyn's "Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism," published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64 (2003), pages 639-57
Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning
La theorie des commandements de Maimonide, qui disait que beaucoup des commandements bibliques devaient etre compris comme des reactions polemiques contre l'idolâtrie ambiante du monde antique, fut l'un des themes que Amos Funkenstein reprit constamment tout au long de sa carriere de professeur. L'A. propose d'abord une interpretation du texte de Funkenstein sur ce sujet, rapport qui fut le premier a comprendre totalement et a mettre dans son con…
Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning
La theorie des commandements de Maimonide, qui disait que beaucoup des commandements bibliques devaient etre compris comme des reactions polemiques contre l'idolâtrie ambiante du monde antique, fut l'un des themes que Amos Funkenstein reprit constamment tout au long de sa carriere de professeur. L'A. propose d'abord une interpretation du texte de Funkenstein sur ce sujet, rapport qui fut le premier a comprendre totalement et a mettre dans son con…
Of Divine Cunning and Prolonged Madness: Amos Funkenstein on Maimonides' Historical Reasoning
La theorie des commandements de Maimonide, qui disait que beaucoup des commandements bibliques devaient etre compris comme des reactions polemiques contre l'idolâtrie ambiante du monde antique, fut l'un des themes que Amos Funkenstein reprit constamment tout au long de sa carriere de professeur. L'A. propose d'abord une interpretation du texte de Funkenstein sur ce sujet, rapport qui fut le premier a comprendre totalement et a mettre dans son con…
The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy
With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Solomon Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late eighteenth-century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Immanuel Kant, charmed Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and inspired…
Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism: A Critical Note
Response to Samuel Moyn's "Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism," published in the Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 64 (2003), pages 639-57
The Saint in the Drawing Room
The Saint in the Drawing Room Abraham Socher on “saints and saintliness” (1905)1 Sometime around 1903 Solomon Schechter was provoked by a woman, whom he somewhat archly described as “a lady of the Jewish persuasion, of high culture and wide reading.” She had remarked that Judaism is the only one among the great religions which has never produced a saint, and that there is, indeed, no room in it for that element of saintliness which, in other cree…
Localized Scleroderma of the Head and Face Area: A Retrospective Cross-sectional Study of 96 Patients from 5 German Tertiary Referral Centres
Themes, methods and scope of study exemplified and described. Maimon's literary and intellectual style. Chapter 1 Maimon's & Life History Maimon's life and the light it sheds on 18th Century Judaism, including Lithuanian Rabbinic culture, Hasidism, and Haskala. Maimon's relationships with Mendelssohn, the Maggid of Miedzerycz and others. Accounts of Maimon's final years. A heretic's burial. Chapter 2 Maimon's Medieval Desire: The Hesheq Shelomo I…
The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
Chapter 13: My Initial Aversion to Belle Lettres and My Ensuing Conversion.Departure from Berlin
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · 1754-1800 (2 works)