Beschreibung:
William Kolbrener is Professor of English at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is author of Open Minded Torah: Of Irony, Fundamentalism, and Love.
Abbreviations of WorksPrefaceIntroduction: The Making of Joseph Soloveitchik and the Unmaking of Talmudic TraditionPart I: Talmudic Tradition: Mourning1. Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Mourning2. Pluralism, Rabbinic Poetry and DisputePart II: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik: MelancholyInterlude: Primal Scene in Pruzhna3. Love, Repentance, Sublimation4. Joseph Soloveitchik, A Melancholy Modern5. Beyond the Law: Repentance and Gendered Memory6. From Interpretive Conquest to Antithetic EthicsConclusion: The Last Rabbi and Talmudic IronyNotesIndex