Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought

James A. Diamond holds the Joseph & Wolf Lebovic Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His books include Jewish Theology Unbound (2018), Maimonides and the Shaping the Jewish Canon (2014), and, with Menachem Kellner, Reinventing Maimonides in Contemporary Jewish Thought (Littman Library, 2019).Professor Kellner is chair of the Department of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Shalem College, Jerusalem and Wolfson Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa.

• Note on Transliteration Note on SourcesIntroduction James A. Diamond and Menachem Kellner1. Rabbi Naftali Tsevi Yehuda Berlin: The Love of Israel versus the Love of the Mind James A. Diamond2. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and Maimonides Menachem Kellner3. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and the Mystification of Maimonidean Rationalism James A. Diamond4. Maimonides and R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira: Abandoning Reason in the Warsaw Ghetto James A. Diamond5. Rav Elhanan Wasserman on Maimonides, and Maimonides on ‘Reb Elhanan’ Menachem Kellner6. Each Generation and Its Maimonides: The Maimonides of Rav Aharon Kotler Menachem Kellner7. What, Not Who, Is a Jew: Halevi-Maimonides in Those Days, Rabbi Aviner and Rabbi Kafih in Our Days Menachem KellnerAfterword Seth Avi KadishBibliography Index

'James A. Diamond and Menachem Kellner are not afraid to tangle with the heart of Jewish tradition and ask provocative questions... [they] do an excellent job of executing their goal of analyzing selected Orthodox rabbis’ writings,' Ethan Prager, Reading Religion