Amos Funkenstein
American Jewish historian
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Israel Prize (1995)
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Amos Funkenstein (1937-1995) was an American-Jewish historian of Jewish history.[1] Funkenstein, like Baruch Spinoza, was considered heretical.[2][3][4] In 1967, he started his career as a history professor at UCLA and later taught at Tel Aviv University, Stanford and UC Berkeley.[5] Funkenstein's work encompassed several disciplines.[6]
Publications
- Funkenstein, Amos (1993). Perceptions of Jewish history. A centennial book. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07702-7.
References
- ^ "Renaissance man Amos Funkenstein dies at age 58". J. 1995-11-17. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ "The Life of Amos Funkenstein - Tablet Magazine".
- ^ Biale, David (1999). "The Last German-Jewish Philosopher: Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography of Amos Funkenstein". Jewish Social Studies. 6 (1): 1–5. doi:10.2979/JSS.1999.6.1.1. ISSN 1527-2028. S2CID 162285846.
- ^ Moyn, Samuel (2003). "Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism". Journal of the History of Ideas. 64 (4): 639–657. doi:10.2307/3654225. ISSN 1086-3222. JSTOR 3654225.
- ^ "Amos Funkenstein; Jewish History Scholar". Los Angeles Times. 1995-11-14. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
- ^ Westman, Robert S.; Biale, David, eds. (2008). Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442689404. ISBN 978-0-8020-9795-8. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442689404.
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