Isaac Abrabanel -- Ahad Ha-Am -- Joseph Albo -- Hannah Arendt -- Baal Shem Tov -- Leo Baeck -- Walter Benjamin -- Eliezer Berkovits -- Martin Buber -- Hermann Cohen -- Hasdai Crescas -- Abraham ibn Daud -- Jacques Derrida -- Dov Baer of Mezhirich -- Simon Dubnow -- Solomon Formstecher -- Sigmund Freud -- Solomon ibn Gabirol -- Abraham Geiger -- Gersonides -- Aharon David Gordon -- Heinrich Graetz -- Judah Halevi -- Theodor Herzl -- Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Moses Hess -- Samson Raphael Hirsch -- Samuel Hirsch -- Vladimir Jabotinsky -- Zevi Hirsch Kalischer -- Mordecai Kaplan -- Abraham Isaac Kook -- Immanuel Lévinas -- Isaac Luria -- Moses Hayyim Luzzatto -- Solomon Maimon -- Maimonides -- Karl Marx -- Moses Mendelssohn -- Nahman of Brahtslav -- Nahmanides -- Bahya ibn Pakuda -- Philo -- Leon Pinsker -- Judith Plaskow -- Franz Rosenzweig -- Saadiah ben Joseph Gaon -- Gershom Scholem -- Baruch Spinoza -- Hayyim Vital.
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This panoramic survey provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness and complexity of the Jewish philosophical, theological and Kabbalistic tradition. Beginning in the first century with the Hellenistic philosopher Philo, Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers traces the major intellectual events of the last two thousand years, including the growth of Medieval Jewish philosophy, the early modern mystics, the radicals, the Hasidic leaders, the Enlightenment and secular and religious Zionism. From Maimonides to Martin Buber, and from Baruch Spinoza to Elie Wiesel, this volume carries the standard found in Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers (Routledge, 1994) and is ideally suited for anyone interested in Jewish thought or history.