The Problem of Jewish "Bildung" in Franz Rosenzweig’s "It Is Time" and “Of Bildung There Is No End”

Monika Dorothea Kaminska

doi:10.13135/2704-8195/3795

Monika Dorothea Kaminska University of Hamburg

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2704-8195/3795

Abstract

In his open letter to Hermann Cohen Zeit ists... (It Is Time) Franz Rosenzweig develops the idea of founding an Academy for the Science of Judaism as part of his new conception of Jewish learning. In his essay Bildung und kein Ende (“Of Bildung There Is No End”), he emphasizes that his goal is not to replace the study of Judaism in a university setting, but to establish collaboration between different traditions of learning as equals. The conjunction und (“and”) he uses in the title can be read as expressing the envisioned relationship between traditional Jewish and academic teaching, but also point to the difference between the two. Rosenzweig’s criticism addresses the subordination of Jewish traditions and Jewish learning to the norms of Western humanism.

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