{"id":3536,"date":"2024-01-25T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:14:09","slug":"a-second-look-at-the-scholem-kurtzweil-debate-through-the-eyes-of-david-halivni-and-gerson-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2024\/01\/a-second-look-at-the-scholem-kurtzweil-debate-through-the-eyes-of-david-halivni-and-gerson-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second Look at the Scholem-Kurtzweil Debate, Through the Eyes of David Halivni and Gerson Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article by Rabbi Dr. Zvi Leshem based on the archives of Rabbi Halivni in the National Library of Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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During his spirited life, Gresham Shalom<\/a> (1897-1982) knew quite a few controversies. Among his most well-known disputants are the great scholars and thinkers, such as Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Tishby and Jacob Taubes. Another famous dispute was the one between Shalom and the literary scholar, Prof. Baruch Kurzweil<\/a> (1907-1972) from Bar-Ilan University. …<\/p>\n

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My intention is not to expand the the disucssion about this sad situation, as many and good people have already done.\u00a0 [Rather], my intention is only to shed light on a new angle based on the correspondence between Kurzweil and my rabbi and teacher, Rabbi Rabbi Prof. David Halivni of blessed memory on the subject.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Translations by Noah Gradofsky based on Google Translate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more at\u00a0https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/sodot-kurzweil\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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During his spirited life, Gresham Shalom (1897-1982) knew quite a few controversies. Among his most well-known disputants are the great scholars and thinkers, such as Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Tishby and Jacob Taubes. Another famous dispute was the one between Shalom and the literary scholar, Prof. Baruch Kurzweil (1907-1972) from Bar-Ilan University. … My intention is not to expand the the disucssion about this sad situation, as many and good people have already done.\u00a0 [Rather], my intention is only to shed light on a new angle based on the correspondence between Kurzweil and my rabbi and teacher, Rabbi Rabbi Prof. David Halivni of blessed memory on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":3539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,78,83,158],"tags":[],"coauthors":[161],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-modern-judaism","category-philosophy","category-remembering-rabbi-halivni-zl"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3540,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}