Interim JudaismJewish Thought in a Century of                  CrisisMichael L. MorganProbes the impact of                  the 20th century on Jewish belief and practice.Confronting the                  challenges of the 20th century, from modernity and the Great War to the Holocaust                  and postmodern culture, Jewish thinkers have wrestled with such fundamental issues                  as redemption and revelation, eternity and history, messianism and politics. From                  the turn of the century through the 1920s, European Jewish intellectuals confronted                  alienation and the challenges of modernity by seeking secure grounds for a                  meaningful life. After the Holocaust and the fall of Nazism, the rich results of                  their thinking -- on topics such as transcendence, redemption, revelation, and                  politics -- were reinterpreted in an atmosphere of increasing disillusion and                  fragmentation. In Interim Judaism, Michael L. Morgan traces the evolution of this                  shift in values, as expressed in the work of social thinkers, novelists, artists,                  and poets as well as philosophers and theologians at the beginning and end of the                  century. Focusing on the problem of objectivity, the experience of the transcendent,                  and the relationship between redemption and politics, he argues that the outcome for                  contemporary Jews is a pragmatic style of religiosity that has abandoned traditional                  conceptions of Judaism and is searching and waiting for new ones, a condition that                  he describes as "interim Judaism."Michael L. Morgan is                  Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is                  author of Platonic Piety and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana University                  Press). He has edited The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim; Classics in Moral and                  Political Theory; Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy (Indiana University                  Press); and A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination. With Paul                  Franks, he has translated and edited Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological                  Writings.Published with the generous support of Hebrew Union                  College--Jewish Institute of Religion, CincinnatiJuly                  2001128 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4cloth 0-253-33856-5 $35.00 L /                  ?26.50paper 0-253-21441-6 $15.95 s / ?12.50  (2001)

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