This is the first publication in English of Franz Rosenzweig’s 1927 translation of and commentaries on ninety-two poems and hymns of the greatest medieval ‘singer of Zion, ‘ Yehuda Halevi (born circa 1080). Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely recognized as one of the greatest Jewish philosophers of the modern period and his Star of Redemption is considered one of the most important twentieth-century contributions to Jewish—and Christian—theology.
Rosenzweig’s original and brilliant commentaries open a window into the final developments of his own thought: his debates with Protestant theology, his reservations regarding modern science and culture, and his progressive appreciation for the wisdom of the Jewish tradition. They are a testament not only to the profound vision of Judaism embedded in the poetry of Yehuda Halevi, but to the ever vibrant and deepening sagacity of Franz Rosenzweig himself.
Table of Content
Editor’s Note
Introduction: Rosenzweig’s Rebbe Halevi:
From the Academy to the Yeshiva
Richard A. Cohen
Poetry Translator’s Note
Gilya Gerda Schmidt
Commentary Translator’s Note
Eva Jospe
Preface
Franz Rosenzweig
God
1. Praised!
2. The All-Powerful One
3. Longing
4. At Night
5. Event
6. Excursus: Day of Revelation***
7. All My Bones
8. The Incomparable One
9. None but You
10. The Lovers*
11. Judgment Day
12. Homecoming*
13. Hear*
14. The True One
15. Your God*
16. His Peace
17. The All
18. The Remote-and-Near-One
19. The Name*
20. Hallowed
21. Your Dwellings*
22. The God of the Spirits*
23. Holy*
24. The Helper Soul
25. Here I Am
26. Soul
27. Soul in Exile
28. With You
29. Prayer
30. Human Weakness*
31. Return
32. The Reward
33. This Soul Here
34. Delusion and Truth*
35. The World as Woman*
36. Wise Teachings
37. Servants*
38. World
39. The Sick Physician
40. To the Sabbath
41. Free*
42. Sabbath Morning*
43. Life*
44. The Day
45. Turn Back! Turn Back!
46. The Ascent*
47. Breath of All Life People
48. In Eternity
49. God Speaks
50. Festival of Lights
51. Morning Service
52. Light
53. Conquered Darkness
54. The Day at the Sea of Reeds*
55. My King*
56. Out of My Straits
57. To the Redeemer*
58. Excursus: A Linguistic Stunt***
59. Upward Gaze*
60. Maiden Israel’s Sabbath*
61. Home
62. Elijah’s Miracles*
63. The Jew
64. The Promise*
65. Loving One’s Enemies
66. Miracle of Love
67. Irate Love
68. Dream Vision*
69. Faithfulness
70. Consoling Love
71. Finding Each Other Again Zion
72. Up
73. Glad Tidings
74. Calculating Salvation*
75. In the Sanctuary
76. Carpets of Solomon
77. Nocturnal Tear
78. The City on High
79. Between East and West
80. Reply
81. The Pilgrim
82. All of This Means Little*
83. A Compelling Force
84. Supplication
85. The Flood
86. Excursus: Storm**
87. Spoken to the Heart*
88. Calm after the Storm (Fragment)
89. To the West Wind*
90. In the Harbor*
91. On Egyptian Soil*
92. The River (1924 title: ‘Up the Nile’)
93. Hither . . . *
94. Presentiment*
95. To Zion [also known as ‘Zionide’]
Selected Bibliography
Index of Introductions and Commentaries
About the author
Richard A. Cohen, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is editor of
Face to Face with Levinas, also published by SUNY Press, author of
Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas and translator of four books by Emmanuel Levinas:
Ethics and Infinity, Time and the Other, Discovering Existence with Husserl, and
New Talmudic Readings.
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