Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) ranks as one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the modern period.
ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ (1886–1929), German Jewish philosopher and theologian.
$10.00. by Franz Rosenzweig. Franz Rosenzweig and the Founding of the Lehrhaus A review of the life, thought, and work of this influential 20th-century existentialist thinker and Jewish educator. I can never explain what happened to me, but I felt on Yom Kippur alone with God. Franz Rosenzweig is one of the greatest contributors to Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and is, with Martin Buber and Abraham Heschel, one of the Jewish thinkers most widely read by Christians. Donate There can be little doubt that Franz Rosenzweig was not only one of the most seminal thinkers of his time, but that he also left his mark on education, psychoanalysis, the critical study of religion and the Jewish Christian dialogue. In the same year, on Yom Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi Petuchowski and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish community. Yom Kippur is the most powerful day in the Jewish calendar, and one of the most widely observed days in the Jewish year. The power of Yom Kippur is immense and compelling. Unlike the rest of his family, Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took private Hebrew lessons. As a historian of philosophy, Rosenzweig played a brief but noteworthy role in the neo-Hegelian revival on the German intellectual scene of the 1910s. ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ (1886–1929), German Jewish philosopher and theologian. P. C. Almond, Rudolf Otto: An Introduction to his Philosophical Theology, Chapel Hill, 1984. Marcion was a 2 nd-century Christian thinker—sometimes described as a Gnostic—who held that the world was created not by a benevolent deity but rather by a lesser, evil divinity and who saw faith in Christ as a means of allowing individuals to escape this world and enter the true Kingdom of God.
His father Georg financially supported many charity institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's adherence to Judaism was minimal. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany, the only son of well-to-do parents. So, in the early twentieth century, the young Jew who became the great existentialist philosopher Franz Rosenzweig attended a small synagogue on Yom Kippur and decided that the idea of moving into Christianity was not for him. Foreword by N. N. Glatzer.
On Jewish Learning collects essays, speeches, and letters that express Rosenzweig's desire to reconnect the profound truths of Judaism with the lives of ordinary people. ... That was the decent, honest thing to do. A Reenactment, November 10, 2000. Yom Kippur in Berlin in 1913 brought him back from the brink of apostasy, and he decided he could never be anything other than a Jew. Rudof Otto, The Idea of the Holy, Oxford 1923. 445 pp. Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) ranks as one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the modern period. Rosenzweig was born into a wealthy, acculturated family in Kassel, Germany. So, on October 11, 1913, I decided to go to Yom Kippur services in a small traditional synagogue in Berlin. Bibliography: Nahum N. Glatzer, Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought, New York 1951. ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ. Jewish Spiritual Leaders Series: Franz Rosenzweig. Reflections on Franz Rosenzweig RICHARD L. RUBENSTEIN thinkers are more talked about than read. But few of us can say that a Yom Kippur transformed our lives such that we were never the same again. For years that has been the fate of Franz Rosenzweig, the German Jewish thinker who has apparently had the greatest impact on establish-ment Jewish theology in the United States since World War II. ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ (1886–1929), German Jewish philosopher and theologian. Rosenzweig came to flirt, that is, with a position that he would later describe as Marcionism. Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany, the only son of well-to-do parents. Rosenzweig never spoke or wrote about what precisely happened to him in that traditional Berlin synagogue on Yom Kippur of 1913, but the historian Nahum Glatzer concluded, from conversations with Franz’s mother and from indirect statements by the philosopher himself, that he underwent a personal mystical experience. To anyone even remotely interested in 20th-century Jewish thought the name of Franz Rosenzweig has long been familiar, as are the outlines of his extraordinary life. A6, as "Yom Kippur bridges gap to God." Translated from the second edition of 1930 by William H. Hallo. As a traumatic religious experience, Yom Kippur has been a turning-point for many a Jew: but for none more significantly than Franz Rosenzweig. Description.