Miri Freud-Kandel is the Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, Fellow in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and co-convenor of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. She is the author of Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken (2006), co-editor, with Adam S. Ferziger and Steven Bayme, of Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken (2019), and co-editor, with Nicholas de Lange, of Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (2005).

‘A major study of an important twentieth-century Jewish thinker and religious leader, whom I was privileged to know and learn from.’ David Novak, Fellow of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

• IntroductionPart I. The Grinning Cheshire Cat 1. The Making of Louis Jacobs2. Tradition vs. Orthodoxy3. The Jew in the PewPart II. Liberal Supernaturalism: The Theology of Louis Jacobs 4. God5. Torah6. IsraelPart III. The Contemporary Jewish Quest: From Cheshire Cat to Tinkerer7. Revelation in Context: From Louis Jacobs to TheTorah.com8. The Tyranny of Labels9. Mysticism and the New Age10. Truth and FaithConclusion: Reconsidering Jacobs for the Contemporary Jewish Quest Bibliography Index

Miri Freud-Kandel is the Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, Fellow in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and co-convenor of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. She is the author of Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken (2006), co-editor, with Adam S. Ferziger and Steven Bayme, of Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken (2019), and co-editor, with Nicholas de Lange, of Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (2005).

‘A major study of an important twentieth-century Jewish thinker and religious leader, whom I was privileged to know and learn from.’ David Novak, Fellow of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

• IntroductionPart I. The Grinning Cheshire Cat 1. The Making of Louis Jacobs2. Tradition vs. Orthodoxy3. The Jew in the PewPart II. Liberal Supernaturalism: The Theology of Louis Jacobs 4. God5. Torah6. IsraelPart III. The Contemporary Jewish Quest: From Cheshire Cat to Tinkerer7. Revelation in Context: From Louis Jacobs to TheTorah.com8. The Tyranny of Labels9. Mysticism and the New Age10. Truth and FaithConclusion: Reconsidering Jacobs for the Contemporary Jewish Quest Bibliography Index

Miri Freud-Kandel is the Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, Fellow in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and co-convenor of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism. She is the author of Orthodox Judaism in Britain Since 1913: An Ideology Forsaken (2006), co-editor, with Adam S. Ferziger and Steven Bayme, of Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken (2019), and co-editor, with Nicholas de Lange, of Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (2005).

‘A major study of an important twentieth-century Jewish thinker and religious leader, whom I was privileged to know and learn from.’ David Novak, Fellow of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

• IntroductionPart I. The Grinning Cheshire Cat 1. The Making of Louis Jacobs2. Tradition vs. Orthodoxy3. The Jew in the PewPart II. Liberal Supernaturalism: The Theology of Louis Jacobs 4. God5. Torah6. IsraelPart III. The Contemporary Jewish Quest: From Cheshire Cat to Tinkerer7. Revelation in Context: From Louis Jacobs to TheTorah.com8. The Tyranny of Labels9. Mysticism and the New Age10. Truth and FaithConclusion: Reconsidering Jacobs for the Contemporary Jewish Quest Bibliography Index