They Made Their Souls Anew

• Utgivningsdatum: 1990-07-05
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
• Vikt: 417 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
• Antal sidor: 156
• Förlag: State University of New York Press
• ISBN: 9780791403150
• Översättare: David Maisel

• Judendom

Andreå Neher was a Professor at the University of Strasbourg and the author of more than twenty works translated worldwide.

"The book is an imaginative...brilliant discussion of the moral and religious plight of Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The theme is that of Teshuvah or return. This is probably one of the best books written on this theme since Martin Buber's. The author is something of a poet, a biographer, a historian of ideas, even a sage. Few people are able to write in so profound and comprehensive a way. They Made Their Souls Anew is in a class by itself and is going to be talked about for a long time." — Kenneth R. Seeskin, Northwestern University"Neher thinks, in these pages, with learning, imagination, and with great honesty. He brings the past into contact with the present by focussing on a number of contemporary or near-contemporary figures (e.g., Lazare, Heine, Fondane) through whom the past and issues of Jewish identity in general are to be grasped. This gives both a sense of immediacy and a historical basis to the work. It is an interesting and valuable book." — Berel Lang, State University of New York at Albany

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