Tag: Jewish Intellectual History

The article explores the enigmatic figure of Monsieur Chouchani, a mysterious teacher who had a profound impact on significant Jewish intellectuals such as Elie Wiesel, Emmanuel Levinas, and Shalom Rosenberg.
In this episode of the Jewish Lives Podcast, Adam Phillips discusses the early life of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis.
In this podcast episode, John Podhoretz reflects on the life and ideas of his mother, Midge Decter, who recently passed away.
Midge Decter, a prominent cultural commentator, recently passed away.
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, a historian and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, discusses the history of halacha (Jewish law).
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg, a historian and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, discusses the history of halacha (Jewish law).
Contemporary Judaism is characterized by both stability and diversity.
The debate on social media between Hasidim and academics revolves around whether the revered Rabbi Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro lost his faith during the Holocaust.
Chad Alan Goldberg and Eliyahu Stern present contrasting perspectives on the Jewish experience with modernity.
Moses Mendelssohn, an influential 18th-century Jewish philosopher, was celebrated for advocating Jewish rights, promoting modernity, translating the Bible into German, and producing the political-philosophical work "Jerusalem."