Word: glatzer
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...take a look at Rosenzweig's work firsthand. One of his earlier theological works, Understanding the Sick and the Healthy (The Noonday Press; $3), has just been published in English. Last year, in Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought (Schocken-Farrar, Straus & Young; $6), Biographer Nahum N. Glatzer, an old friend of Rosenzweig, turned out a study of his career largely drawn from Rosenzweig's own writings...
...Innermost Heart. In 1912, when Rosenzweig graduated from the University of Berlin, the scholars of European Judaism were more European than they were Jewish. Staunch disciples of the 19th century German philosophers, they had interpreted Judaism for 150 years in philosophic terms that were fundamentally Greek and Christian. As Glatzer recalls: "They identified Judaism with humanism, with a religion of reason, with man's moral autonomy .. . they sought to justify Judaism before the throne of philosophy...