The value of the particular : : lessons from Judaism and the modern Jewish experience : festschrift for Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / / edited by Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson ; with the editorial assistance of Sarah Leventer.

• Superior document: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Volume 25
• TeilnehmendeR: Zank, Michael,; Anderson, Ingrid,; Leventer, Sarah,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; Volume 25.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 379 pages)

In this tribute to Steven T. Katz on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, Michael Zank and Ingrid Anderson present sixteen original essays written by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, modern Judaism, and theology after the Holocaust, fields of inquiry where Steven Katz made major contributions over the course of his distinguished scholarly career. The authors of this volume, specialists in Jewish history, especially the modern experience, and Jewish thought from the Bible to Buber, offer theoretical and practical observations on the value of the particular. Contributions range from Tim Knepper’s reevaluation of the ineffability discourse to the particulars of the Settlement Cookbook, examined by Nora Rubel as an American classic.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Michael Zank -- Effable Ineffabilities: Steven Katz’s Contribution to the Study of Ineffability Discourse / Timothy Knepper -- Conceptualizations of Tzimtzum in Baroque Italian Kabbalah / Moshe Idel -- Hasidic Derashah as Illuminated Exegesis / Nehemia Polen -- A Matter of Context: Comparing Kabbalah and Neo-Confucianism / Yair Lior -- Spinoza on Love / David Novak -- Mendelssohn and Kant: Ethics and Aesthetics / Leah Hochman -- Martin Buber on Monotheism and Its Discontents / Paul Mendes-Flohr -- The Eros of Ethics: Posthumous Writings of Emmanuel Levinas / Seán Hand -- Hebrew Justice: A Reconstruction for Today / Youde Fu -- Eternal Duration and Temporal Compresence: The Influence of Ḥabad on Joseph B. Soloveitchik / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Martin Buber in America: An Ambivalent Reception / Asher Biemann -- A “Jewish” Joy of Cooking? How a 20th Century Cookbook Containing Frog’s Legs, Snails, and Ham Became a Beloved Jewish Icon / Nora Rubel -- Reenacted Humanism: If This is a Man and Primo Levi’s “New Bible” / Sharon Portnoff -- Theology as Ethics: Emmanuel Levinas as Jewish Post-Holocaust Thinker / Didier Pollefeyt -- Ethics, Meaning, and the Absurd in Elie Wiesel’s The Trial of God and Albert Camus’s The Plague / Ingrid Anderson -- The Holocaust: An Indic Perspective / Arvind Sharma -- Steven T. Katz: Selected Publications.