Reference Type: Book
Author: Idel, Moshe
Year: 2012
Title: Lumi vechi, oglinzi noi
Translated Title: [Old worlds, new mirrors]
City: Bucureşti
Publisher: Hasefer
Number of Pages: 377
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, memoir, holocaust, minority organizations, elites, politics, communist era, ethnic identity, intellectuals, education
Abstract: (En) Moshe Idol observes the emergence of a new Jewish intellectual elite, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which didn't include prophets, priests, kings or rabbis, but intellectuals and academics who were working in secular academia or they were writing for an audience that was not particular defined by some religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors, Idel brings to attention important personalities, such as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzwcig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner, in order to reflect on their relationship with Judaism, in a cosmopolitan and mainly European context.

(Ro) Moshc Idei remarcă apariţia, în sccolclc XIX şi XX, a unei noi elite intelectuale evreieşti, ce nu cuprindea profeţi, preoţi, regi sau rabini, ci intelectuali şi academicicni care lucrau în mediul universitar laic sau scriau pentru un public ce nu se definea printr-un set anume de credinţe religioase. în Lumi vechi, oglinzi noi. Idei îşi îndreaptă atenţia către personalităţi importante, precum Waltcr Benjamin şi Jacqucs Dcrrida, Franz Kafka şi Franz Rosen/.wcig, Amaldo Momigliano şi Paul Cclan, Abraham Heschcl şi George Steiner, cu scopul de a reflecta asupra relaţiei accstora cu iudaismul. într-un context cosmopolit şi majoritar european.