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Menachem Kellner
Menachem Kellner, Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa, and Senior Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem was born in Albany, New York, in 1946 and came to Israel with his family in 1980. He earned his Ph.D. from Washington University in St Louis with a dissertation on "Civil Disobedience in Democracy: A Philosophical Justification" in 1973. He also studied at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, IL and at Yeshivat Merkaz Ha-Rav Kook in Jerusalem in the early 60's, as well as at the Hebrew University (1964-65 and 1969-70) and at New York University (1966-67). Kellner has served as Chair of the University of Haifa's Department of Maritime Civilizations(1988-91), and as Dean of Students (1994-97). From 1990-2005 Kellner held the Sir Isaac and Lady Edith Wolfson Chair of Jewish Religious Thought at the University of Haifa. He has been visiting Professor at the Sorbonne and at Northwestern University. Menachem Kellner has published nineteen books and close to one hundred articles in the areas of medieval Jewish philosophy and modern Jewish thought. Two of his recent books, Must a Jew Believe Anything? and Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism, both published by the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Oxford), were finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. Two of his translations of classic texts have appeared in the Yale Judaica Series.
Bibliography
Books Written
1. Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. (paperback reprint: 2004) (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/kellner.html) 4. Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/kellner-must2.html) 6. Maimonides' Confrontation With Mysticism. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilizaton, 2006. (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/kellner-maimonides.html) 7. Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2009. (http://www.academicstudiespress.com/) 8. Torah in the Observatory: Maimonides, Gersonides, Song of Songs. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2009. (http://www.academicstudiespress.com/)
Critical Editions
9. Isaac Abravanel, Rosh Amanah (Principles of Faith). Hebrew text edited, with introduction and notes, and companion texts from Duran, Crescas and Bibago. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 1993.
Scholarly Translations
11. Principles of Faith by Isaac Abravanel (translation, introduction, notes). London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1981. (paperback reprint: 2004) (http://www.littman.co.uk/cat/abravanel.html) 13. Book of Love by Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, vol. 2). New Haven: Yale University Press (Yale Judaica Series), 2004.
Edited Collections
14. Contemporary Jewish Ethics. New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1978 (second printing, 1985).
Special Issues of Journals
17. Iyyun 50 (2001) – Special issue devoted to Leo Strauss (with Ehud Luz). 18. Jewish History (2004) – Special issue devoted to the Eight Hundredth Anniversary of Maimonides' Death. 19. Jewish History (2010) – Special issue devoted to the Five Hundredth Anniversary of Isaac Abravanel's Death (with Abraham Melamed).
Select Publications
"Worship of the Heart vs. Worship in the Temple: A Study in Maimonides," Sha'anan 10 (2005): 131-139 (Hebrew). "Reflections on Jewish Religion in a Democratic State," Aviezer Ravitzky (ed.), Religion and State in Twentieth Century Jewish Thought [Dat u-Medinah be-Hagut ha-Yehudit be-Me'ah ha-Esrim] (Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2005): 473-488 (Hebrew). "Mishneh Torah - Why?" Mesorah le-Yosef 4 (2005): 316-329 (Hebrew). "Spiritual Life," in Kenneth Seeskin (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Maimonides (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 273-299. "Religious Faith in the Middle Ages and Today," Moshe Halbertal, David Kurzweil, and Avi Sagi (eds.), Al Ha-Emunah (Jerusalem: Keter, 2005): 312-327, 647-650 (Hebrew). "'Farteitsht un Farbessert': Comments on Tendentious 'Corrections' to Maimonidean Texts," B. Ish-Shalom (ed.), Be-Darkei Shalom: Iyyunim be-Hagut Yehudit Mugashim li-Shalom Rosenberg (Jerusalem: Bet Morashah, 2006): 255-263 (Hebrew). English Translation: "Farteitcht un Farbessert (On 'Correcting' Maimonides) in Me'orot [Edah Journal] 6.2 (2007). (http://www.yctorah.org/content/view/211/64/) "A New and Unexpected Textual Witness to the Reading 'He Who Kills a Single Person – It is as if He Destroyed an Entire World," Tarbiz 75 (2007): 565-566 (Hebrew). "Did the Torah Precede the Cosmos? – A Maimonidean Study," Da'at 61 (2007): 83-96 (Hebrew). "Maimonides' Critique of the Rabbinic Culture of His Day," in Daniel H. Frank and Mathew Goldish (eds.), Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics: Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008): 83-116. "Each Generation and its Maimonides: The Maimonides of Rabbi Aharon Kotler," in U. Ehrlich, H. Kreisel, D. Lasker (eds.), By the Well: Studies in Jewish Philosophy and Halakhic Thought Presented to Gerald J. Blidstein (Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press, 2008) (Hebrew): 463-486. ] 7.1 (2008) (http://www.yctorah.org/content/view/436/10/). "Philosophical Themes in Maimonides’ Sefer Ahavah," in Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn Evan Goodman, and James Grady (eds.), Maimonides and His Heritage (Albany: SUNY Press, 2009): 13-35. "Maimonides' Disputed Legacy," Carlos Fraenkel (ed.), Traditions of Maimonideanism (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 245-276. "Introduction" to Hebrew translation of Eliezer Berkovits, God, Man, and History (Jerusalem: Shalem, 2009): 7-14. "Faith, Science, and Orthodoxy," in M. Kellner, Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides (Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2009): 233-245. "Rashi and Maimonides on Torah and the Cosmos," Ephraim Kanarfogel (ed.), From Rashi to Maimonides: Themes in Medieval Jewish Thought, Law and Interpretation (forthcoming). "Maimonides' Moses: Torah, History, and Cosmos," Hannah Kasher (ed.), The Man Moses (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, forthcoming) (Hebrew). "Daniel Boyarin and the Herd of Independent Minds," in Edward Alexander and Paul Bogdanor (eds.), The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006): 167-176. "Israel Reverses Gravity," OpenDemocracy http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-debate_97/gravity_3404.jsp "The War in Lebanon: A View from Haifa," OpenDemocracy http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-middle_east_politics/lebanon_haifa_view_3803.jsp Haifa Diary: The Postmodern War," Washington Post Outlook, Sunday, July 23, 2006; Page B05 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201052.html "Resisting Falsehood and Protecting Integrity" (Reply to Omar Barghouti, "Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Why the Academic and Cultural Boycott?"), Babylon [Norway] 5.1 (2007): 122-131. http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=950 "And Yet…Israel at Sixty," Jewish Action 68.3 (Spring, 2008): 38-41. http://www.ou.org/index.php/jewish_action/article/38193/
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