The Angel of Jewish History: The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah)

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Review "Ronny Miron's brilliant new book is the first to address the philosophy of Jewish history as the interplay between immanence and transcendence, between what is exposed and what is hidden, between subjectivity and collective memory. In her close readings of Yerushalmi, Funkenstein, Scholem, Kurzweil, and Rotenstreich she explores the dialectics involved in their various attempts at coming to terms with the metaphysical dimensions of the Jewish past, whose transcendent elements cannot be made fully transparent by the subjective consciousness of the historian. Miron's impressive work of synthesis will no doubt emerge as an indispensable addition to the fields of Jewish history and Jewish philosophy alike." --Anthony Kauders, Keele University"Who is the Angel of Jewish History? God? Jews? Historian? Mystic? Poet? Practical Man? Doubtlessly all of them including a Philosopher like Ronny Miron who seeks to interpret the views of the five XX century Jewish thinkers in the hermeneutical way and discloses unavoidable tensions and bridges between immanence and transcendence, past and future, secularism and religion. This is a book not exclusively for the Jews who try to understand the enigma of their history, but it provides also the unique opportunity to grasp that the Jewish History is a pattern of the History of any Nation." --Alfred Marek Wierzbicki, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin About the Author Ronny Miron is professor of philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. Her research is focused on post-Kantian idealism, existentialism, phenomenology,and hermeneutics, as well as with current Jewish thought. She is an author of Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being (Rodopi, 2012).