1st Edition

Reflections of a Wondering Jew

Edited By Morris Cohen Copyright 2010
184 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Much as he considered himself a philosopher, Morris Raphael Cohen was also immersed in the machinery of social life. From his first years of "engagement" as a volunteer teacher in Thomas Davidson's school for working-class people, to his last as professor of philosophy at New York's City College and at the University of Chicago, he constantly sought to understand the underlying assumptions of... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction EditionPublisher's NotePART ONEJEWS IN AMERICA1. What I Believe as an American Jew2. Roads for American Jewry3. Jewish Education4. Yiddish5. Jews in Commerce and the ProfessionsPART TWOJEWS AND THE WORLD6. Philosophies of Jewish History7. Maimonides8. The Jew in SciencePART THREEBOOK REVIEWS9. Lods' The Prophets and the Rise of Judaism10. Rees' A Critique of the Jews11. Parkes' The Jew and His Neighbour and Lewisohn's The Answer12. Bloom's My Memories and Frumkin's In the Springtime of Jewish Socialism13. A Rabbinic Anthology14. Hoschander's The Priests and Prophets and Finkelstein's The Pharisees15. Freud's Moses and Monotheism16. Strickland's Religion and the State in Georgia17. The American Jewish Year Book18. Kenyon's The Bible and Archaeology19. Judaism and Christianity20. Powell's Spinoza and ReligionAcknowledgmentsIndex

Biography

Morris Cohen