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Elias Sacks

Elias Sacks is assistant professor of religious studies and associate director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His book Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press) is forthcoming.

Saving the World

Elias Sacks

There are at least two problems with the widely repeated narrative about Rosenzweig's sudden commitment to Judaism: It’s historically false and philosophically pernicious.