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Rosenzweig started out as a Jew of his time. He was born in Cassel, Germany, to a comfortable, culturally assimilated family; only a great-uncle was a dedicated, religious Jew. Rosenzweig's real interests as a young man were intellectual: first medicine, then later, at the universities of Freiburg and Berlin, such studies as literature, classical languages, philosophy, history and political theory...
Holiest of Days. Then, while doing postgraduate work in jurisprudence at Leipzig, Rosenzweig met a converted Jew, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who had abandoned his Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed...
Binding Commandment. Even more important and enduring was the middle- of-the-road view that Rosenzweig took of the Halakhah, the elaborate body of law set down in Jewish tradition. Buber virtually reduced Halakhah to individual inclination, arguing that its prescriptions were useful only to a Jew who found them personally fulfilling. But Rosenzweig saw the law as something stronger, not so much a set of rules as a universally binding commandment to seize every opportunity to perform a good work, or mitzvah. Laws that did not serve such good ends in a particular historical setting simply no longer applied...
...more often than they mentioned him. Bardin is, however, not finished with his own contribution. This week, on the 2,200-acre Brandeis grounds, construction begins on a four-year Jewish prep school, the first of its kind in the U.S., which will open in the fall of 1972. Jew and non-Jew, black and white, rich and poor (subsidized by scholarships) will be accepted equally. But all will be required to study Hebrew and the humanities. Judaic culture will be stressed, for the school will emphasize, as the camp has, that cultural identity is the keystone for useful citizenship...
Enjoy? How can he? Jake is a liberal. The higher his stock rises, the more guilt-edged it becomes. Like the author, a Canadian Jew now living in London, he belongs to the generation ("Young too late, old too soon") that grew up without ever getting a chance to go to the barricades, whether in Spain or Israel. Squeezed now in a moral vise between "the old and resentful have-everythings and the young know-nothings," Jake cultivates his own garden, "inflated with love but ultimately self-serving and cocooned by money." Swishing a brandy at his fashionable Hampstead house...