Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center

This issue includes the first scholarly study of the author’s library of German-Hebrew aphoristic poet Elazar Benyoëtz, which the Rosenzweig Minerva Center received as a gift last year.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Asher D. Biemann
Nationalismus als Umkehr: Etwas zur jüdischen Meta-Politik der Moderne

Joseph (Yossi) Turner and Nadav Shifman Berman
Franz Rosenzweig’s Concept of Redemption as a Vehicle for Confronting the Philosophical Problem of Contemporary Transhumanism

Samuel P. Catlin
“No Sin to Limp”: Critique as Error in Geoffrey Hartman’s Essays on Midrash

Emir Yigit
Dialectical Abnormality? Jewish Alienation and Jewish Emancipation between Hegel and Marx

James Adam Redfield and Tamar Gutfeld
The Anxiety of Tradition: Unrealized Weddings in Berdichevsky’s Yiddish Stories

Stefan Hermes
Ein Stück Heimat? Hans Mayers ambivalente Sicht auf Israel

Jan Kühne and Anna Rosa Schlechter
“A Self-Portrait in Books” — Reflections on the Aphoristic Library of Elazar Benyoëtz

This booklet celebrates the thirty-year anniversary of the FRMRC. It includes extensive interviews with the former directors of the Center, in which they reflect upon their experiences, upon the vision and principles that guided them during their years at the Center, and upon the research that was conducted and the intellectual community that was built during their time at the Center. Following these interviews, the concluding section presents a snapshot of the Center’s research community at present: brief self-portraits of the fellows who have carried out their research and brought the Center to life over the last few years.