Creating a Judaism without Religion

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.