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Author Kolbrener, William, author

Title The last Rabbi : Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic tradition / William Kolbrener
Published Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2016]
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Series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
New Jewish philosophy and thought.
Contents The making of Joseph Soloveitchik and the unmaking of Talmudic tradition -- Hermeneutics of Rabbinic mourning -- Pluralism, Rabbinic poetry, and dispute -- Love, repentance, sublimation -- Joseph Soloveitchik: a melancholy modern -- Beyond the law: repentance and gendered memory -- From interpretive conquest to antithetic ethics -- The last Rabbi and Talmudic irony
Summary Joseph Soloveitchik (1903'1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, philosopher, and theologian. In this new work, William Kolbrener takes on Soloveitchik's controversial legacy and shows how he was torn between the traditionalist demands of his European ancestors and the trajectory of his own radical and often pluralist philosophy. A portrait of this self-professed "lonely man of faith" reveals him to be a reluctant modern who responds to the catastrophic trauma of personal and historical loss by underwriting an idiosyncratic, highly conservative conception of law that is distinct from his Talmudic predecessors, and also paves the way for a return to tradition that hinges on the ethical embrace of multiplicity. As Kolbrener melds these contradictions, he presents Soloveitchik as a good deal more complicated and conflicted than others have suggested. The Last Rabbi affords new perspective on the thought of this major Jewish philosopher and his ideas on the nature of religious authority, knowledge, and pluralism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov
Soloveitchik, Joseph Dov, 1903-1993
Soloṿeyṭshiḳ, Yosef Dov 1903-1993
SUBJECT Talmud gnd
Subject Rabbis -- United States -- Biography
Jewish scholars -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
RELIGION -- Philosophy.
Jewish scholars
Rabbis
Philosophie
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253022325
0253022320