Jacques Picard is professor of modern and Jewish history and cultures at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Jacques Revel is a cultural historian and former president of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. Michael P. Steinberg is vice provost for the arts, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of music and German studies at Brown University. Idith Zertal is an Israeli historian and essayist who has taught at the University of Basel, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Zertal's books and essays have been published in many languages.

• 1. Introduction: Thinking Jewish Modernity, 1 Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal 2. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Judaism Essential and Mysterious, 16 Lydia Flem 3. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): Modern Society and the Jews, 30 Bruno Karsenti 4. Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): Sovereignty and the Two Palestines, 46 Raef Zreik 5. Simon Dubnow (1860-1941): Reluctant Secularism, 61 Dan Diner 6. Bernard Lazare (1865-1903): Radical Modernism and Jewish Identity, 75 Nathaniel Berman 7. Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935): Revelation and Redemption, 92 Yehudah Mirsky 8. Aby Warburg (1866-1929): "Thinking Jewish" in Modernity, 108 Griselda Pollock 9. Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, Prescription, Prophecy, 126 Leon Botstein 10. Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945): Poetic Redemption, 144 Vivian Liska 11. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): Universalism and Particularism, 159 Kevin B. Anderson and Peter Hudis 12. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Sonic Allegories, 173 Ruth HaCohen 13. Martin Buber (1878-1965): The Theopolitical Hour, 187 Christoph Schmidt 14. Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Solidarity and Ambivalence, 204 Robert Schulmann 15. Horace Kallen (1882-1974): Pragmatic Modernism, 220 Jacques Picard 16. Franz Kafka (1883-1924): Writing in Motion, 233 Galili Shahar 17. David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): The Politicization of the Jews, 249 Yar on Ezrahi 18. Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): On the Idea of Diaspora, 265 Peter E. Gordon 19. Rene Cassin (1887-1976): Human Rights and Jewish Internationalism, 278 Samuel Moyn 20. Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970): Baptism by Fire, 292 Ariel Hirschfeld 21. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): Anti-apocalyptic World Politics, 306 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky 22. Peretz Markish (1895-1952): Modern Marxist and Yiddishist, 320 David Shneer and Robert Adler Peckerar 23. Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): Mystical Modernism, 335 David Biale 24. Leo Strauss (1899-1973): Protestant Judaism and Its Islamic Remedy, 350 Leora F. Batnitzky 25. Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994): A Believer's Voyage, 364 Avi Sagi 26. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969): Auschwitz and Commodity Fetishism, 379 Moshe Zuckermann 27. Mark Rothko (1903-1970): Beyond Absence, 393 Ulrike Gehring 28. Elias Canetti (1905-1994): A Difficult Contemporary, 407 Galin Tihanov 29. Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995): Tradition and Its Other, 423 Raphael Zagury-Orly 30. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): Being in the Present, 436 Martine Leibovici 31. Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987): Judaism Past and Present, 450 Silvia Berti 32. Simone Weil (1909-1943): A Jewish Thinker?, 466 Maud S. Mandel 33. Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997): Unpretentious Passion, 480 Yuli Tamir 34. Nathan Alterman (1910-1970): Poetry National and Political, 493 Hannan Hever 35. Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Athens and Jerusalem, 507 Steven Jaron 36. Primo Levi (1919-1987): Memory and Enlightenment, 520 Enzo Traverso 37. Paul Celan (1920-1970): The Word Proscribed, 535 Arnau Pons 38. Clarice Lispector (1920-1977): A Woman of Spirit, 550 Nelson H. Vieira 39. Juan Gelman (1930-2014): The Bereaved Bird, 564 Pablo Kirtchuk 40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Judeities, 583 Joseph Cohen 41. Philip Roth (1933-): Writing the American Jewish Century, 597 Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 42. Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): Poetry, Power, Powerlessness, 613 Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch 43. Joel and Ethan Coen (1954-/ 1957-): Finding Rabbi Marshak, 629 Daniel Herwitz 44. Judith Butler (1956-): Between Ethics and Politics, 642 Bonnie Honig and John Wolfe Ackerman Acknowledgments 655 List of Contributors (Editors and Authors) 657 Illustration Credits 661 Index 663

Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council "The editors of [Makers of Jewish Modernity] exceed their stated goal of showing how various Jewish public figures 'transformed the 20th century,' through 43 profiles of subjects both expected ... and surprising... The entries, which assume no prior knowledge, convey a great deal of information and cogent analysis in a short space."--Publishers Weekly "A worthwhile collection for scholars and readers interested in Jewish affairs."--Kirkus

Jacques Picard is professor of modern and Jewish history and cultures at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Jacques Revel is a cultural historian and former president of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. Michael P. Steinberg is vice provost for the arts, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of music and German studies at Brown University. Idith Zertal is an Israeli historian and essayist who has taught at the University of Basel, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Zertal's books and essays have been published in many languages.

• 1. Introduction: Thinking Jewish Modernity, 1 Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal 2. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Judaism Essential and Mysterious, 16 Lydia Flem 3. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): Modern Society and the Jews, 30 Bruno Karsenti 4. Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): Sovereignty and the Two Palestines, 46 Raef Zreik 5. Simon Dubnow (1860-1941): Reluctant Secularism, 61 Dan Diner 6. Bernard Lazare (1865-1903): Radical Modernism and Jewish Identity, 75 Nathaniel Berman 7. Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935): Revelation and Redemption, 92 Yehudah Mirsky 8. Aby Warburg (1866-1929): "Thinking Jewish" in Modernity, 108 Griselda Pollock 9. Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, Prescription, Prophecy, 126 Leon Botstein 10. Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945): Poetic Redemption, 144 Vivian Liska 11. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): Universalism and Particularism, 159 Kevin B. Anderson and Peter Hudis 12. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Sonic Allegories, 173 Ruth HaCohen 13. Martin Buber (1878-1965): The Theopolitical Hour, 187 Christoph Schmidt 14. Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Solidarity and Ambivalence, 204 Robert Schulmann 15. Horace Kallen (1882-1974): Pragmatic Modernism, 220 Jacques Picard 16. Franz Kafka (1883-1924): Writing in Motion, 233 Galili Shahar 17. David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): The Politicization of the Jews, 249 Yar on Ezrahi 18. Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): On the Idea of Diaspora, 265 Peter E. Gordon 19. Rene Cassin (1887-1976): Human Rights and Jewish Internationalism, 278 Samuel Moyn 20. Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970): Baptism by Fire, 292 Ariel Hirschfeld 21. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): Anti-apocalyptic World Politics, 306 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky 22. Peretz Markish (1895-1952): Modern Marxist and Yiddishist, 320 David Shneer and Robert Adler Peckerar 23. Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): Mystical Modernism, 335 David Biale 24. Leo Strauss (1899-1973): Protestant Judaism and Its Islamic Remedy, 350 Leora F. Batnitzky 25. Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994): A Believer's Voyage, 364 Avi Sagi 26. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969): Auschwitz and Commodity Fetishism, 379 Moshe Zuckermann 27. Mark Rothko (1903-1970): Beyond Absence, 393 Ulrike Gehring 28. Elias Canetti (1905-1994): A Difficult Contemporary, 407 Galin Tihanov 29. Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995): Tradition and Its Other, 423 Raphael Zagury-Orly 30. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): Being in the Present, 436 Martine Leibovici 31. Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987): Judaism Past and Present, 450 Silvia Berti 32. Simone Weil (1909-1943): A Jewish Thinker?, 466 Maud S. Mandel 33. Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997): Unpretentious Passion, 480 Yuli Tamir 34. Nathan Alterman (1910-1970): Poetry National and Political, 493 Hannan Hever 35. Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Athens and Jerusalem, 507 Steven Jaron 36. Primo Levi (1919-1987): Memory and Enlightenment, 520 Enzo Traverso 37. Paul Celan (1920-1970): The Word Proscribed, 535 Arnau Pons 38. Clarice Lispector (1920-1977): A Woman of Spirit, 550 Nelson H. Vieira 39. Juan Gelman (1930-2014): The Bereaved Bird, 564 Pablo Kirtchuk 40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Judeities, 583 Joseph Cohen 41. Philip Roth (1933-): Writing the American Jewish Century, 597 Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 42. Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): Poetry, Power, Powerlessness, 613 Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch 43. Joel and Ethan Coen (1954-/ 1957-): Finding Rabbi Marshak, 629 Daniel Herwitz 44. Judith Butler (1956-): Between Ethics and Politics, 642 Bonnie Honig and John Wolfe Ackerman Acknowledgments 655 List of Contributors (Editors and Authors) 657 Illustration Credits 661 Index 663

Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council "The editors of [Makers of Jewish Modernity] exceed their stated goal of showing how various Jewish public figures 'transformed the 20th century,' through 43 profiles of subjects both expected ... and surprising... The entries, which assume no prior knowledge, convey a great deal of information and cogent analysis in a short space."--Publishers Weekly "A worthwhile collection for scholars and readers interested in Jewish affairs."--Kirkus

Jacques Picard is professor of modern and Jewish history and cultures at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Jacques Revel is a cultural historian and former president of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. Michael P. Steinberg is vice provost for the arts, the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and professor of music and German studies at Brown University. Idith Zertal is an Israeli historian and essayist who has taught at the University of Basel, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Zertal's books and essays have been published in many languages.

• 1. Introduction: Thinking Jewish Modernity, 1 Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal 2. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Judaism Essential and Mysterious, 16 Lydia Flem 3. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917): Modern Society and the Jews, 30 Bruno Karsenti 4. Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): Sovereignty and the Two Palestines, 46 Raef Zreik 5. Simon Dubnow (1860-1941): Reluctant Secularism, 61 Dan Diner 6. Bernard Lazare (1865-1903): Radical Modernism and Jewish Identity, 75 Nathaniel Berman 7. Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935): Revelation and Redemption, 92 Yehudah Mirsky 8. Aby Warburg (1866-1929): "Thinking Jewish" in Modernity, 108 Griselda Pollock 9. Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, Prescription, Prophecy, 126 Leon Botstein 10. Else Lasker-Schuler (1869-1945): Poetic Redemption, 144 Vivian Liska 11. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): Universalism and Particularism, 159 Kevin B. Anderson and Peter Hudis 12. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Sonic Allegories, 173 Ruth HaCohen 13. Martin Buber (1878-1965): The Theopolitical Hour, 187 Christoph Schmidt 14. Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Solidarity and Ambivalence, 204 Robert Schulmann 15. Horace Kallen (1882-1974): Pragmatic Modernism, 220 Jacques Picard 16. Franz Kafka (1883-1924): Writing in Motion, 233 Galili Shahar 17. David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): The Politicization of the Jews, 249 Yar on Ezrahi 18. Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): On the Idea of Diaspora, 265 Peter E. Gordon 19. Rene Cassin (1887-1976): Human Rights and Jewish Internationalism, 278 Samuel Moyn 20. Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970): Baptism by Fire, 292 Ariel Hirschfeld 21. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): Anti-apocalyptic World Politics, 306 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky 22. Peretz Markish (1895-1952): Modern Marxist and Yiddishist, 320 David Shneer and Robert Adler Peckerar 23. Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): Mystical Modernism, 335 David Biale 24. Leo Strauss (1899-1973): Protestant Judaism and Its Islamic Remedy, 350 Leora F. Batnitzky 25. Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994): A Believer's Voyage, 364 Avi Sagi 26. Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969): Auschwitz and Commodity Fetishism, 379 Moshe Zuckermann 27. Mark Rothko (1903-1970): Beyond Absence, 393 Ulrike Gehring 28. Elias Canetti (1905-1994): A Difficult Contemporary, 407 Galin Tihanov 29. Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995): Tradition and Its Other, 423 Raphael Zagury-Orly 30. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): Being in the Present, 436 Martine Leibovici 31. Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987): Judaism Past and Present, 450 Silvia Berti 32. Simone Weil (1909-1943): A Jewish Thinker?, 466 Maud S. Mandel 33. Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997): Unpretentious Passion, 480 Yuli Tamir 34. Nathan Alterman (1910-1970): Poetry National and Political, 493 Hannan Hever 35. Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Athens and Jerusalem, 507 Steven Jaron 36. Primo Levi (1919-1987): Memory and Enlightenment, 520 Enzo Traverso 37. Paul Celan (1920-1970): The Word Proscribed, 535 Arnau Pons 38. Clarice Lispector (1920-1977): A Woman of Spirit, 550 Nelson H. Vieira 39. Juan Gelman (1930-2014): The Bereaved Bird, 564 Pablo Kirtchuk 40. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Judeities, 583 Joseph Cohen 41. Philip Roth (1933-): Writing the American Jewish Century, 597 Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 42. Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): Poetry, Power, Powerlessness, 613 Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch 43. Joel and Ethan Coen (1954-/ 1957-): Finding Rabbi Marshak, 629 Daniel Herwitz 44. Judith Butler (1956-): Between Ethics and Politics, 642 Bonnie Honig and John Wolfe Ackerman Acknowledgments 655 List of Contributors (Editors and Authors) 657 Illustration Credits 661 Index 663

Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council "The editors of [Makers of Jewish Modernity] exceed their stated goal of showing how various Jewish public figures 'transformed the 20th century,' through 43 profiles of subjects both expected ... and surprising... The entries, which assume no prior knowledge, convey a great deal of information and cogent analysis in a short space."--Publishers Weekly "A worthwhile collection for scholars and readers interested in Jewish affairs."--Kirkus