20th Century Jewish Religious Thought: Original Essays on Critical Concepts, Movements, and Beliefs

List of Contributors

List of Contributors HENRY HANOCH ABRAMOVITCH is a psychologist and anthropologist who teaches at the Tel Aviv University Medical School. He is the author of the forthcoming Abraham: Psychology of a Spiritual Revolutionary and His Hebrew Chroniclers. He has pursued fieldwork research on mortuary customs both in Jerusalem and in Madagascar. DEATH JACOB B. AGUS (1911-1986) was ordained by Yeshiva University in 1935 and received his advanced degrees from Harvard University. Among his many books are Modern Philosophies ojJudaism (1941), The Evolution ojJewish Thought (1959), Jewish Identity in an Age oj Ideologies (1978). In addition to serving a congregation, Rabbi Agus has taught at Temple University and Dropsie College and for more than a decade served as editorial consultant on Judaism and Jewish history to the Encyclopaedia Brittanica. MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY ALLAN ARKUSH has taught Jewish Studies at Colgate University and Cornell University . He is the translator of Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem (1983). He is currently Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. IMMORTALI1Y; MIRACLE JACOB A. ARLOW, a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and former president of the American Psychoanalytic Association as well as editor-in-chief 1102 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS of the psychoanalytic journal, Quarterly, is a member of the Board of Jewish Education (New York City), emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the College of Medicine of New York University. GUILT HENRI ATLAN is Professor of Medical Biophysics at Hadassah Medical SchoolHebrew University. In addition to a considerable body of original scientific work, Atlan has published numerous essays on general and Jewish philosophy, a portion of which appeared in Entre le Cristal et la Fumee (Paris, 1979) and Mystiques et Sciences (Paris, 1984). CHOSEN PEOPLE JANET AVIAD, a sociologist, teaches at the school of Education and the Melton Center for Jewish Education at The Hebrew University. Among her publications is Return to Judaism: Religious Renewal in Jerusalem (1983). EDUCATION ELLA BELFER is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of Bar-nan University, has published essays on Marxism, secular and religious messianism, and is the editor of Spiritual Leadership in Israel (Hebrew, 1982). POLITICAL THEORY DAVID BIALE, associate professor of History and Judaic Studies at the State University of New York (Binghamton) is the author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History and is presently engaged in an extended study of Jewish attitudes toward love, marriage, and the family. EROS: SEX AND BODY; FAMILY DAVID R. BLUMENTHAL, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia), is editor of the series, Etudes sur Ie judaisme medieval, and author, among other works, of The Commentary of hoter ben Shelomo to the Thirteen Principles of Maimonides, Understanding Jewish Mysticism, and editor of a series in medieval Jewish thought, Approaches to the Study ofJudaism in Medieval Times. MERCY EUGENE B. BOROWITZ, rabbi and Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought at the New York School of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion since 1962, is the founder and editor of Sh'ma, aJournal ofJewi$h Responsibility. He is the author of numerous theological and general works including Liberal Judaism and The Masks Jews Wear. FREEDOM; REASON ARTHUR A. COHEN (1928-1986) was the author of Martin Buber (1959), The Natural and the Supernatural Jew: An Historical and Theological Introduction (1962), The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition (1970), The Tremendum: A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust (1981). He also edited the theological writings of Milton Steinberg, The Anatomy of Faith as well as Arguments and Doctrines (1970) and The Jew: Essays from Martin Buber's Journal, Der Jude, 1916-1928 (1980). He was also a novelist; his Artists and Enemies was published posthumously. ESCHATOLOGY; REDEMPTION; RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD; THEOLOGY GERSON COHEN, presently Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary of America and its Jacob H. Schiff Professor of History, is the author of the critical LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1103 edition of Abraham ibn Daud's Book of Tradition and a contributor to Great Ages and Ideas of the jewish People (1956). Professor Cohen has recently announced that he will resign as Chancellor of the Seminary during 1986. CONSERVATIVE J~DAISM HAIM H. COHEN retired in 1981 from the Supreme Court of Israel where he served for more than twenty years as Associate Justice and later as Deputy President. Prior to his appointment to...