Zachary Braiterman
Biographic Data
| ID | 614286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Braiterman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Braiterman |
| SIGNATURE | BRAITERMAN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Torah Trumps Life: Reflections on Uncivil Religion and Haredi Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
As if by design, crisis reveals basic structural fault lines. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, non-Haredi Jews expressed surprise and even outrage about the ultra-orthodox Haredi response to the pandemic. It was not understood how large-scale violations of public health protocols comported with the legal-halakhic principle of Pikuaḥ Nefesh (saving human life). In this essay, I explore Hasidic response to COVID-19 as reported in the secular a…
Ingrid L. Anderson. Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust: Making Ethics “First Philosophy” in Levinas, Wiesel, and Rubenstein
Broad in scope, Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust by Ingrid Anderson is a unique contribution to the field of philosophical reflection on the Holocaust. Instead of fitting her analysis into neat methodological silos, Anderson works across philosophy, literature, and religious thought to make her claim about the primacy of an ethics of suffering. By ethics of suffering she means to show an ethics devoted first and foremost to the problem of…
No Parting Ways: The Crypto-Zionism of Judith Butler
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism is a curious thing in amalgamating Jewish ethics in terms of self-dispersal and political critique. The book hits its mark by pressing in on Zionism from multiple margin-points. In the form of a negation, its author, Judith Butler, argues the case against Zionism as a historical form of settler-colonialism, while philosophically she positions Jewish ethics against political forms of sovereign p…
The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era
Maimonides and the Visual Image after Kant and Cohen
In this paper, I attempt to consider Jewish philosophy in opposition to the anti-ocularcentrism that defined the German Jewish philosophical tradition after Kant, namely the idea that Judaism—or at least its philosophical expression in Maimonidean philosophy—is aniconic and cognitively abstract. I do so by attempting to rethink the epistemic-veridical place of the imagination and visual experience in the Guide of the Perplexed. Once the imaginati…
Radical Theology and Judaism Response to Martin Kavka
With a thoroughness characteristic of the author, Martin Kavka takes us back some forty years through forgotten byways of 1960s death-of-God talk. Kavka marks out the major and minor moments in the discourse in order to explore the possibility for today of creating a form of radical Jewish theology based on a kenotic theory of divine transcendence poured out into the earthly vessel of rabbinic nomos and human law. The philosophical vector is one …
Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition – By Arthur Green
Second Diasporist Manifesto (A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses) – By R. B. Kitaj
Aesthetics of Renewal: Martin Buber's Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik – By Martina Urban
Lamentations of Youth: The Diaries of Gershom Scholem 1913‐1919 – Edited and translated by Anthony David Skinner
Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust. Edited by Steven T. Katz, Scholomo Biderman, and Gershon Greenberg
Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher – By Eugene R. Sheppard
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation – By Leora Batnitzky
The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought
The Shape of Revelation explores the overlap between revelation and aesthetic form from the perspective of Judaism. It does so by setting the Jewish philosophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig alongside its immediate visual environment in the aesthetics of early German modernism, most notably alongside "the spiritual in art" as it appears in the art and art theories of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc. The modern shape of revelati…
Revelation and the God of Israel (review)
Reviewed by: Revelation and the God of Israel Zachary Braiterman Norbert M. Samuelson . Revelation and the God of Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 259. Norbert Samuelson's recent book on revelation forms a companion piece to his earlier volume on creation, Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation (Cambridge, 1994). The author tackles a core conundrum facing the philosophy and practice of Judaism in the modern period, namel…
Aesthetics and Judaism, Art and Revelation
»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
Der Ästhet Franz Rosenzweig: Beautiful Form and Religious Thought
Joseph Soloveitchik and Immanuel Kant's Mitzvah-Aesthetic
In the following pages, I will address the relationship between Jewish thought and aesthetics by bringing Joseph Soloveitchik into conversation with Immanuel Kant, whose Critique of Judgment remains an imposing monument in the history of philosophical aesthetics. While Buber and Rosenzweig may have been more accomplished aesthetes, Soloveitchik's aesthetic proves closer to Kant's own. In particular, I draw upon the latter's distinction between th…
(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," th…
“Anti/theodic Faith in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits”
Into Life”??! Franz Rosenzweig and the Figure of Death
At the end of his short treatise Understanding the Sick and the Healthy , Franz Rosenzweig predicated the restoration of what he called healthy consciousness upon the recognition of death7apos;s sovereignty. “[One] must direct [one's] life to no other goal but death,” he wrote. “A healthy man has the strength to continue towards the grave. The sick man invokes death and lets himself be carried away in mortal fear.” Rosenzweig juxtaposed the Grim …
Hitler's Accomplice: The Tragic Theology of Richard Rubenstein
Journal Article “ HITLER'S ACCOMPLICE?”: THE TRAGIC THEOLOGY OF RICHARD RUBENSTEIN Get access Zachary Braiterman Zachary Braiterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 1997, Pages 75–90, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/17.1.75 Published: 01 February 1997
Fideism Redux: Emil Fackenheim and the State of Israel
Dans sa pensee philosophique, Emil Fackenheim a insiste sur ce qu'il appelle le 614 eme commandement. Pour lui, ce commandement ordonnait aux Juifs de survivre apres la Shoah et de se souvenir. Il interdisait aux Juifs de desesperer. Un des aspects de cette pensee philosophique a consiste a integrer de maniere systematique la negativite dans une vision morale a long terme. La vie des Juifs en Israel ou dans la Diaspora etonnait Fackenheim. Ils re…
Hitler's Accomplice: The Tragic Theology of Richard Rubenstein
Journal Article “ HITLER'S ACCOMPLICE?”: THE TRAGIC THEOLOGY OF RICHARD RUBENSTEIN Get access Zachary Braiterman Zachary Braiterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 1997, Pages 75–90, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/17.1.75 Published: 01 February 1997
Into Life”??! Franz Rosenzweig and the Figure of Death
At the end of his short treatise Understanding the Sick and the Healthy , Franz Rosenzweig predicated the restoration of what he called healthy consciousness upon the recognition of death7apos;s sovereignty. “[One] must direct [one's] life to no other goal but death,” he wrote. “A healthy man has the strength to continue towards the grave. The sick man invokes death and lets himself be carried away in mortal fear.” Rosenzweig juxtaposed the Grim …
Hitler's Accomplice: The Tragic Theology of Richard Rubenstein
Journal Article “ HITLER'S ACCOMPLICE?”: THE TRAGIC THEOLOGY OF RICHARD RUBENSTEIN Get access Zachary Braiterman Zachary Braiterman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 17, Issue 1, February 1997, Pages 75–90, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/17.1.75 Published: 01 February 1997
Fideism Redux: Emil Fackenheim and the State of Israel
Dans sa pensee philosophique, Emil Fackenheim a insiste sur ce qu'il appelle le 614 eme commandement. Pour lui, ce commandement ordonnait aux Juifs de survivre apres la Shoah et de se souvenir. Il interdisait aux Juifs de desesperer. Un des aspects de cette pensee philosophique a consiste a integrer de maniere systematique la negativite dans une vision morale a long terme. La vie des Juifs en Israel ou dans la Diaspora etonnait Fackenheim. Ils re…
“Anti/theodic Faith in the Thought of Eliezer Berkovits”
Into Life”??! Franz Rosenzweig and the Figure of Death
At the end of his short treatise Understanding the Sick and the Healthy , Franz Rosenzweig predicated the restoration of what he called healthy consciousness upon the recognition of death7apos;s sovereignty. “[One] must direct [one's] life to no other goal but death,” he wrote. “A healthy man has the strength to continue towards the grave. The sick man invokes death and lets himself be carried away in mortal fear.” Rosenzweig juxtaposed the Grim …
(God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought
The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. The author terms this rejection "Antitheodicy," th…
Der Ästhet Franz Rosenzweig: Beautiful Form and Religious Thought
Joseph Soloveitchik and Immanuel Kant's Mitzvah-Aesthetic
In the following pages, I will address the relationship between Jewish thought and aesthetics by bringing Joseph Soloveitchik into conversation with Immanuel Kant, whose Critique of Judgment remains an imposing monument in the history of philosophical aesthetics. While Buber and Rosenzweig may have been more accomplished aesthetes, Soloveitchik's aesthetic proves closer to Kant's own. In particular, I draw upon the latter's distinction between th…
Aesthetics and Judaism, Art and Revelation
»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
Revelation and the God of Israel (review)
Reviewed by: Revelation and the God of Israel Zachary Braiterman Norbert M. Samuelson . Revelation and the God of Israel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 259. Norbert Samuelson's recent book on revelation forms a companion piece to his earlier volume on creation, Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation (Cambridge, 1994). The author tackles a core conundrum facing the philosophy and practice of Judaism in the modern period, namel…
Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher – By Eugene R. Sheppard
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation – By Leora Batnitzky
The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought
The Shape of Revelation explores the overlap between revelation and aesthetic form from the perspective of Judaism. It does so by setting the Jewish philosophy of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig alongside its immediate visual environment in the aesthetics of early German modernism, most notably alongside "the spiritual in art" as it appears in the art and art theories of Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Franz Marc. The modern shape of revelati…
Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust. Edited by Steven T. Katz, Scholomo Biderman, and Gershon Greenberg
Aesthetics of Renewal: Martin Buber's Early Representation of Hasidism as Kulturkritik – By Martina Urban
Lamentations of Youth: The Diaries of Gershom Scholem 1913‐1919 – Edited and translated by Anthony David Skinner
Second Diasporist Manifesto (A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses) – By R. B. Kitaj
Radical Judaism: Rethinking God and Tradition – By Arthur Green
The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era
Maimonides and the Visual Image after Kant and Cohen
In this paper, I attempt to consider Jewish philosophy in opposition to the anti-ocularcentrism that defined the German Jewish philosophical tradition after Kant, namely the idea that Judaism—or at least its philosophical expression in Maimonidean philosophy—is aniconic and cognitively abstract. I do so by attempting to rethink the epistemic-veridical place of the imagination and visual experience in the Guide of the Perplexed. Once the imaginati…
Radical Theology and Judaism Response to Martin Kavka
With a thoroughness characteristic of the author, Martin Kavka takes us back some forty years through forgotten byways of 1960s death-of-God talk. Kavka marks out the major and minor moments in the discourse in order to explore the possibility for today of creating a form of radical Jewish theology based on a kenotic theory of divine transcendence poured out into the earthly vessel of rabbinic nomos and human law. The philosophical vector is one …
No Parting Ways: The Crypto-Zionism of Judith Butler
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism is a curious thing in amalgamating Jewish ethics in terms of self-dispersal and political critique. The book hits its mark by pressing in on Zionism from multiple margin-points. In the form of a negation, its author, Judith Butler, argues the case against Zionism as a historical form of settler-colonialism, while philosophically she positions Jewish ethics against political forms of sovereign p…
Ingrid L. Anderson. Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust: Making Ethics “First Philosophy” in Levinas, Wiesel, and Rubenstein
Broad in scope, Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust by Ingrid Anderson is a unique contribution to the field of philosophical reflection on the Holocaust. Instead of fitting her analysis into neat methodological silos, Anderson works across philosophy, literature, and religious thought to make her claim about the primacy of an ethics of suffering. By ethics of suffering she means to show an ethics devoted first and foremost to the problem of…
Torah Trumps Life: Reflections on Uncivil Religion and Haredi Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
As if by design, crisis reveals basic structural fault lines. In the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, non-Haredi Jews expressed surprise and even outrage about the ultra-orthodox Haredi response to the pandemic. It was not understood how large-scale violations of public health protocols comported with the legal-halakhic principle of Pikuaḥ Nefesh (saving human life). In this essay, I explore Hasidic response to COVID-19 as reported in the secular a…
Philosophy (17 works) · Theology (14 works) · Judaism (12 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (8 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (7 works)