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Looking for a good book on Jewish philosophy?
What is Jewish thought? Good question. In our view, Jewish thought or
philosophy includes both systematic approaches to life and more specific, or
even seemingly mundane, attempts to address Jewish questions that are on our
minds.
The books below include translations of classic works like Maimonides, Yehuda
Halevi, Rosenzweig, Luzzato, and others, as well as works by modern Jewish
philosophers such as Martin Buber, Emil Fackenheim, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph
Soloveitchik. Read these, and you'll go very far, indeed.
You'll also see below some books on histories of Jewish thought as well as
Jewish approaches to specific issues. Some are academic in nature, and some are
popular.
The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish
Thought |
The Jewish Philosophy Reader |
The Kuzari: In Defense of the Despised Faith (Yehuda Halevi) |
The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe
(Modern Jewish History Series) |
The Halakhic Mind: An Essay on Jewish Tradition and Modern
Thought |
A History of the Jewish Experience: Book One, Torah and History,
Book Two Torah, Mitzvot, and Jewish Thought |
Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State |
Emet Ve-Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative
Judaism |
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the Modern Jew |
A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional
Judaism |
A Heart of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Many Voices Within
Judaism |
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism |
Choices in Modern Jewish Thought: A Partisan Guide |
Above the Zodiac: Astrology in Jewish Thought |
Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik |
Fate and Destiny: From Holocaust to the State of Israel |
The Lonely Man of Faith |
Halakhic Man |
Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion |
The Sabbath |
The Prophets |
Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community |
Hasidism and Modern Man |
I and Thou |
The Way of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidism |
Tales of the Hasidim: Book One: The Early Masters and Book Two:
The Later Masters/Two Books in One |
The Lonely Man of Faith |
Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought: Original Essays on Critical
Concepts, Movements, and Beliefs |
The Handbook of Jewish Thought, Volume 1 |
Jewish People, Jewish Thought |
Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis |
Binah: Volume II; Studies in Jewish Thought |
Jewish Intellectual History in the Middle Ages (Binah: Studies in
Jewish History, Culture, and Thought) |
Fragments of Redemption: Jewish Thought and Literary Theory in
Benjamin, Scholem, and Levinas |
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern
Europe |
Judaism and its Social Metaphors : Israel in the History of Jewish
Thought |
To Mend the World: Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jewish
Thought |
What Is Judaism?: An Interpretation for the Present Age (Library
of Jewish Philosophy) |
Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy |
Encounters Between Judaism and Modern Philosophy |
God's Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical
Reflections |
After Tragedy and Triumph : Modern Jewish Thought and the American
Experience |
The Rich Go to Heaven: Giving Charity in Jewish Thought |
The Philosopher-King in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political
Thought (Suny Series in Jewish Philosophy) |
Studies in the Bible and Jewish Thought (JPS Scholar of
Distinction Series) |
Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures
in Modern Jewish Thought (Suny Series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss) |
Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in
Medieval Jewish Thought |
Day by Day: Reflections on the Themes of the Torah from
Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought |
The Wisdom of the Talmud: A Thousand Years of Jewish Thought |
The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought: Orphans of
Knowledge |
By the Sweat of Your Brow: Reflections on Work and the Workplace
in Classic Jewish Thought |
Exploring the Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik |
Torah and Constitution: Essays in American Jewish Thought |
To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from Its
Origins to the Modern State of Israel |
Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict Between
Conscience and Success |
When Bad Things Happen to Good People |
How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and
Forgiveness |
Who Needs God |
The Works of Philo |
The Life and Teachings of Hillel |
The Holy Beggars' Banquet: Traditional Jewish Tales and Teachings
of the Late, Great Reb Shlomo Carlebach and Others in the Spirit of the 1960S, the 1970s, and the New Age |
The Book of Beliefs and Opinions (Saadia Gaon) |
Your Jewish Lexicon: Some Words and Phrases in Jewish Life and Thought in
Hebrew and in English |
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy: A View of World, Man, and
God |
Wisdom of the Jewish Sages: A Modern Reading of Pirke Avot |
The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1 |
The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 2 |
The Star of Redemption |
Al Chet: Sins in the Marketplace |
The Way of God = Derech Hashem (Torah Classics Library) |
The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet: The Sacred Letters As a Guide to Jewish
Deed and Thought |
Philosophical and Theological Writings |
A History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy |
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought |
Ethics of Maimonides (Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion:
Translations and Critical Studies) |
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