Author Name: BAECK, LEO.
Title: This People Israel: The Meaning Of Jewish Existence.
Binding: h Book Condition: Hardcover wih dustjacket. Good condition. Edition: First Edition. Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York: 1964.
Seller ID: 10139X1
Follows Israel through its long spiritual history, from its covenant with God to its encounter with Greece, Rome, and Christianity; the philosophy and mysticism of medieval Judaism and its encounter with Islam, and the confrontation of the Jewish spirit with modern Europe, which leads to a detailed survey of Jewish thinkers from Moses Mendelssohn through Hermann Cohen. The book ends by posing further questions which the spirit confronts in its new settings in Israel and America. Translated into English from the German by Albert H. Friedlander.
(Key Words: History, Israel, Jews, Leo Baeck, Religion, Judaism, God).
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