Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis

This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis scholarship and action. The aim of this book is to think about the moment of crisis through the concepts writings and methodologies awarded to us by Jewish thinkers in modernity. This book offers a broad gallery of accounts on the notion of crisis in Jewish modernity while emphasizing three terms: interpretation heresy and messianism. The main thesis of the volume is that the diasporic and exilic experience of the Jewish people turned their philosophers and theologians into exper ts in crisis management who had to find resources within their own religion culture and traditions in order to react endure and overcome short- and long-term historical crises. The underlining assumption of this book is therefore that Jewish thought obtains resources for conceptualizing and reacting to the current forms of crisis in the global European and Israeli spheres. The volume addresses a large readership in humanities social and political sciences and religious studies taking as its assumption that scholars in modern Jewish thought have an extended responsibility to engage in contemporary debates.