Acknowledgements

Foreword by Susannah Heschel

Introduction

Editors’ Note

1. London: Jewish Learning in Exile

Context

The Idea of Jewish Education

Notes for a Lecture on Jewish Education in the Modern Era

2. Personalities in Jewish History

Context

Rabbi Johanan ben Zakkai

Rabbi Gamliel II

Rabbi Akiba

Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel II

Elisha ben Abuyah

Rabbi Meir

Rabbi Judah Hanasi

Rabbi Hiyya

3. Don Yitzhak Abravanel

            Context

            On History

            A Life Between State and God

            On the Origin of the World

            The Two Paths to the Imitation of God

            On the End of Time

            Interpreting Scripture

            A Legacy of Failed Advocacy

4. For the Jewish Holidays in Berlin

Context

The Power of Repentance (Rosh Hashanah, 1936)

The Meaning of Repentance (Rosh Hashanah, 1936)

Lights Over the Sea (Hanukkah, 1937)

5. Meditations

Context

On Suffering

On the Seriousness of Prayer

On Dreaming God’s Dream

On Return

Notes

Selected Bibliography
Contributors

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."