Leo Baecks Das Wesen des Judentums wurde erstmals 1905 veröffentlicht und ist seitdem vielleicht das meistgelesene Beispiel deutsch-jüdischer Gelehrsamkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das als Antwort auf Adolf von Harnacks Vorlesungen über Das Wesen des Christentums verfasste Buch versucht, die Grundprinzipien des Judentums zu definieren und diese mit anderen Religionen zu vergleichen. Doch indem er die Grundlagen des Judentums herausarbeitet, zeigt Baeck auch, wie die verschie...

Dans cet ouvrage en forme de testament moral et spirituel, écrit en camp de concentration, Léo Baeck parle autant de l'universalité du genre humain que de la spécificité de l'homme juif. Ce rabbin philosophe pour lequel le judaïsme authentique rimait avec un humanisme sincère, transcendant tout clivage confessionnel, nous rappelle que seules les oeuvres de l'esprit sont indestructibles et que seul un peuple qui abdique sa dignité spirituelle est réellement mort. La meilleure chose qui puis...

"La risposta alla domanda di quali siano le condizioni che danno all'ebraismo il diritto di esistere indipendentemente dal cristianesimo si trova nell'evidenza stessa dei suoi valori e dei suoi contenuti eterni trasmessi dalla tradizione. Il fariseismo e il rabbinismo si presentarono per Baeck come una forza rinnovatrice dell'etica dei profeti. Sarebbe, quindi, del tutto riduttivo attendersi da queste pagine una replica diretta alle accuse di ipocrisia che tanto hanno pesato sia sulla sort...

Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Je...

Helfer, Tröster, Seelsorger:Leo Baeck – Symbol für Mut und BeständigkeitLeo Baeck ist eine herausragende historische Figur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als die einflussreichste Persönlichkeit des liberalen Judentums während der Weimarer Republik wurde er mit der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten zum alles überragenden Hüter und Tröster seines bedrängten Volkes. Diese Biografie Leo Baecks folgt nicht einfach den Ereignissen und Taten seines Lebens. Vielmehr wi...

Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Je...

The Spiritual Resistance of Rabbi Leo Baeck provides an overview of the life of Dr. Leo Baeck (1873–1956), a German-Jewish rabbi, theologian, historian and Holocaust survivor, from a psychoanalytic perspective.Paul Marcus approaches Baeck’s life and intellectual/theological contribution as it interfaces with a broadly defined psychoanalysis. This book describes and explains how Baeck maintained the rudiments of his autonomy, integration and humanity while remaining in Nazi...

Days of Sorrow and Pain, winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, tells the story of Germany’s Jews under the Nazis and of one man’s valiant efforts to help them meet the horrors of the Hitler regime. Leonard Baker explores the disintegration of German society, the plight of German Jews and the philosophy of Leo Baeck which enabled him to guide his people in their struggle for survival. After Hitler came to power, German Jews formed the Reichsvertretung with Leo Ba...

First published in German in 1905 as Das Wesen des Judentums, Leo Baeck’s The Essence of Judaism is perhaps the most widely read example of German Jewish scholarship in the 20th century. Written as a response to Adolf von Harnack’s lectures Das Wesen des Christentums (The Essence of Christianity), the book seeks to both define the fundamental principles of Judaism, and contrast them with other religions. But by outlining Judaism’s essence, Baeck also shows how th...

Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a rabbi, public intellectual, and the official leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. The Jewish Imperial Imagination shows the myriad ways in which the German imperial enterprise left its imprint on his religious and political thought, and on modern Judaism more generally. This book is the first to explore Baeck's religious thought as political, and situate it within the imperial context of the period which is often ignored in discussions of modern Jewish t...