In a lecture title "Jewish Philosophy: An Obituary," Paul
Mendes-Flohr observed that "Jewish philosophers seem to be a dying
breed." However tongue in cheek the statement may have been at the
close of the twentieth century by a scholar of modern Jewish
thought, a similar pessimistic observation was made quite seriously
at the beginning of the twentieth century by Isaac Husik in his
History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy (1916), which he sadly
concludes with the words, "There are Jews now and there are
philosophers, but there are no Jewish philosophers and there is no
Jewish philosophy." This volume, as one more modest contribution to
the exponentially increasing publications, in Hebrew and in other
languages, of original thought and of scholarly analysis, proves
that obituaries for Jewish philosophy and thought are exaggerated,
premature, and ultimately far off the mark. Husik's own work helped
start the revival of a field for which he - like nineteenth century
scholars of Wissenschaft des Judentums - mistakenly thought he was
writing an epitaph. This collection includes two symposia, on "The
Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America" and on "Maimonides on
the Eternity of the World," as well as other studies in medieval
Jewish philosophy and modern Jewish thought. Contributors include:
Leora Batnitzky, Ottfried Fraisse, William A. Galston, Lenn E.
Goodman , Raphael Jospe, Steven Kepnes, Haim Howard Kreisel,
Charles Bezalel Manekin, Haggai Mazuz, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Alan
Mittleman, Michael Morgan, David Novak, James T. Robinson, Norbert
M. Samuelson, Dov Schwartz, Yossef Schwartz, Kenneth Seeskin,
Roslyn Weiss, and Martin Yaffe.
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