Eliezer Schweid (1929-2022) was Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He published over forty books in general and specific areas of Jewish thought of all periods, and commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern. He was the recipient of the distinguished Israel Prize and two honorary doctorates. Leonard Levin teaches Jewish philosophy at the Academy for Jewish Religion, Yonkers, NY.

• Editor's PrefaceForeward1. Culture as a Concept and Culture as an Ideal2. Tensions and Contradiction3. Internalizing the Cultural Ideal4. The Underlying Philosophy of Jewish Enlightenment5. The Meaning of Being a Jewish-Hebrew Maskil6. Crossroads: The Transition from Haskalah to the Science of Judaism7. The Dialectic Between National Hebrew Culture and Jewish Idealistic Humanism8. The Philosophic Historic Formation of Jewish Humanism: A Modern Guide to the Perplexed9. The Science of Judaism - Research in Judaism as a Culture10. The Science of Judaism, Reform Judaism and Historical Positivism11. A Critique of the Science of Judaism and the Cultural Ideal of Enlightenment12. Accelerated Change and Revolution13. The Vision of Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Political Zionism14. The Pioneering (Halutzic) Culture of the Jewish Labor Movement in Palestine15. Polar Views on Sources of Jewish Culture16. Alienation from Religion and Tradition17. The Jewish Folk Culture of Eretz Israel18. Judaism as the Totality of National Historic Culture19. Sanctity and the Jewish National Movement20. The Dimension of Sanctity in Pioneering Labor Zionism21. The Orthodox Zionist Culture -- Sanctifying Modernity22. Judaism as a Culture in the Diaspora23. The Secular Jewish Culture of Yiddish24. The Transition from the Hebrew Culture of Pre-state Eretz Israel to Israeli CultureGlossaryBibliographyIndex.

"…Schweid's work is a significant addition to the analysis of European Jewish thought in the modern period."