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...began to write his masterwork in the German trenches in the Balkans, where he was serving out the last days of World War I. He sent it home in letters to his mother. Mustered out, Franz Rosenzweig finished Der Stern der Erlösung (The Star of Redemption) in February 1919, just six months after he started it; the book was published two years later in Frankfurt. Since then it has become one of the dominant works of Jewish thought in the 20th century, ranking with those of Martin Buber (I and Thou), a friend of Rosenzweig's. Thanks...
...heady, often dizzying experience. Students who thought their inability to read German well prevented them from understanding The Star of Redemption in the original may find that they do not understand the work much better in English. Given a point to make, Rosenzweig often runs with it as if he were a kind of Wilhelm Jennings Bryan, piling peroration on peroration in order to close all avenues of intellectual escape. But he can also, by turns, be incisive, poetic, and even now controversial. At its best, the book remains precisely what Rosenzweig intended it to be-the centerpiece...
...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...
...Just like Ceylon," says Columbia Senior Roy Rosenzweig, a history major, "where 10,000 people went to college and couldn't get jobs." He might have added India, Latin America and Africa. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick, who recently visited several big Midwestern universities, "was amazed that so many students seemed to be drifting, bewildered by what was happening to them and resentful that no employer seemed to want to hire them...