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Naharaim Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1515/naha-2022-0016

Antoine Lévy

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Abraham Halevi Fraenkel, Martin Buber and Adult Education at the Hebrew University 亚伯拉罕-哈勒维-弗兰克尔、马丁-布伯与希伯来大学的成人教育

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Naharaim Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1515/naha-2023-0020

Rakefet Cohen-Anzi

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Märchenhafter Materialismus. Zur Konkretion der profanen „Theologie“ Siegfried Kracauers in seinen Figurationen des Jüdischen 童话般的唯物主义关于齐格弗里德-克拉考尔的亵渎 "神学 "在其犹太人形象中的具体化

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Naharaim Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1515/naha-2023-0012

Ansgar Martins

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Between a Dream and Its Realization: Locating Utopia and Zionism in Kafka’s American Story 梦想与实现之间：在卡夫卡的美国故事中寻找乌托邦和犹太复国主义

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Naharaim Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.1515/naha-2022-0013

Joshua David Shelly

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Scholem’s Kafka: Not a Nihilistic, but Rather a Secular, Kabbalist 肖莱姆的卡夫卡不是虚无主义者，而是世俗的卡巴拉学者

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Naharaim Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1515/naharaim-2022-0018

Steven Weinberg

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The Jewish Risk: Philip Roth in Sixties West Germany 犹太人的风险:菲利普·罗斯在六十年代西德

Naharaim Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1515/naharaim-2023-0018

Kai Sina

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Scripture, Sovereignty and National Self-Determination in Martin Buber’s Bein Am Le’Artzo (1944) 马丁·布伯的《我是艺术的人》(1944)中的圣经、主权和民族自决

Naharaim Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1515/naha-2023-0011

Abraham Rubin

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Contra Schmitt: Walter Benjamin, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt Contra Schmitt: Walter Benjamin, Leo Strauss和Carl Schmitt

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Naharaim Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.1515/naha-2022-0017