Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology

by Miri Freud-Kandel

For Louis Jacobs, the quest--the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith--was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious Judaism that empowered individual seekers to address challenges to faith. In Orthodox Judaism at the time a battle was under way for religious control. Generating a widespread controversy in British...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906764883
• ISBN13: 9781906764883
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 8.8"