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This book examines how some modern and contemporary Jewish thinkers and writers have imagined a Judaism without theboundaries and restrictions that go by the name of "religion." The book offers scholarly insights into some Jewish thinkers–notably Martin Buber and Eugene Borowitz, some Jewish writers–in particular the poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik and the Yiddish author I.L. Peretz. The study also introduces more contemporary thinkers and writers such as the postmodernist Jacques Derrida, the contemporary Israeli novelist David Grossman, and the young Israeli poet Ilan Sheinfeld. While of scholarly interest, the ten chapter work has more general appeal as a way of conceiving Jewish living outside the restrictions of religion. One third of the book suggests a way of looking at God and theology as part of the process of living rather than as fixed realities. Another third explores how Jewish culture can be liberated from the restrictions of nationalism and parochialism. The final third focuses on a postmodern ethics of the self that emerges from face to face meetings with others. The author contends that the future Judaism has created will be pluralistic, diverse, and oriented toward the future.
S. Daniel Breslauer is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas.
Chapter 1 Preface: Before the FallChapter 2 Introduction: Creative Betrayal: Hasidism, Israeli Writers, and Martin BuberChapter 3 Theology Without Religion:Chapter 4 Jewish Studies, Disciples of the Besht, and Responses to the HolocaustChapter 5 A Possibility for Deconstruction of Revelation: The Case of Eugene B. BorowitzChapter 6 Visions of the Messiah in Poetry, Theology, and MysticismChapter 7 Jewish Culture Without Religion:Chapter 8 Jewish Culture as Experiments in Variety: Some Reflections on Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Cultural ZionismChapter 9 Anthological Betrayal: Bialik and the Jewish BookChapter 10 Bialik, Agnon, and Ben Yehuda: Hebrew and the Individual's Spiritual QuestChapter 11 Jewish Ethics Without Religion:Chapter 12 Negotiation as Theology: Reflections on Stories by I.L. Peretz, S.Y. Agnon, and Martin BuberChapter 13 Considerations of Eisik ben Yekel of Crakow, Some Stories of I.L. Peretz, and the Meaning of CircumcisionChapter 14 The Limits of Covenant Theology, Instructive Poems by Ilan Sheinfeld, and the Subversive in PeretzChapter 15 Selected BibliographyChapter 16 Index
'Creating a Judaism without Religion' is a necessary and helpful corrective to the bias toward theory that is prevalent in modern Jewish thought.
