פרופ' יעקב קולר

Books

Reading Maimonides' Philosophy in Nineteenth Century Germany – The Guide to Religious Reform (Springer Science, Dordrecht 2012 / vol. 15 of Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy)

Kabbalah Research in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1820–1880) - The Foundation of an Academic Discipline, Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien, De Gruyter 2019

Edited volumes

Der jüdische Messianismus im Zeitalter der Emanzipation - Reinterpretationen zwischen davidischem Königtum und endzeitlichem Sozialismus (introduced edition, deGruyter, 2013)

The Tragedy of Optimism - Steven Schwarzschild’s Writings on Hermann Cohen, State University NY Press, New York 2018 (introduced edition)

מקס יוסף, היהדות על פרשת דרכים: דברים על השאלה הגורלית אל האמיצים והאצילים בעם היהודי (הקדמה, עריכה והערות) –Bar Ilan University Press

Introduced and annotated translation of Max Joseph’s Judentum am Scheidewege (1908)

The Roads Not Taken – The Neglected Role of Kabbalah in 19^th and early 20^th Century Scholarship, Cherub Press, Los Angeles, 2018 (with Christian Wiese)

Nationalismus und Religion – Zu Hermann Cohens 100. Todestag, Heidelberg 2019 (with Eveline Goodman-Thau)

Judaism and the Science of Judaism – 200 Years of Academic Thought on the Jewish Religion, special editon of Daat - A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah, 2019 (with Thomas Meyer and Andreas Braemer)

Modern Jewish Theology – The First One Hundred Years, 1835-1935. JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society/Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2023. (with Samuel J. Kessler)

Emanzipation nach der Emanzipation. Jüdische Literatur, Philosophie und Geschichte um 1900. Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2024 (with Bettina Bannasch).

Judaism and Modern Western Philosophy: Collected Writings of Steven S. Schwarzschild, Amsterdam Stduies in Jewish Philosophy, Springer 2024 (With Daniel Weiss, in print)

Reviewed articles in journals

 “Medieval Infinities in Mathematics and the Contribution of Gersonides”, in: History of Philosophy Quarterly, 23-2 (2006), pp. 95-116

“Manuel Joel in Defense of the Talmud – Liberal Responses to Religious Antisemitism in Nineteen-Century Germany”, Hebrew Union College Annual 79, (2008/2010), p. 141-163.

“German Spirit and Holy Ghost - Treitschke’s Call for Conversion of German Jewry: The Debate Revisited”, in: Modern Judaism 30:2 (2010), p. 172-195.

“Finding God’s Purpose - Hermann Cohen’s Use of Maimonides to Establish the Authority of Mosaic Law”, in: Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy 18:1 (2010), p. 85-115

„Die Idealisierung des Diesseits“ – Maimonides’ Einfluss auf das Konzept des Messianismus in Hermann Cohens Essay Charakteristik der Ethik Maimunis, in: Judaica, 3/2011 p. 241-262.

"Is there a God an sich? Isaac Breuer on Kant’s Noumena", in: AJS Review 36:1 (2012), p. 121-139.

„Platzmachen für Gott - Else Lasker-Schüler, Rabbiner Kurt Wilhelm und der religiöse Liberalismus in Palästina“, in: Aschkenas. 2013; 21(1–2): p. 179–199

“Moses as a Superhuman – Criticism of Maimonides’ Theory of Prophecy by Wissenschaft des Judentums Scholars in Early 20th-Century Germany”, in Jewish Studies Quarterly, No. 1, 2015, p. 87-107.

"Rabbi Max Joseph – Between Reform and Zionism", in: Review of Rabbinic Judaism 19 (2016) 96–117

“The Captivating Beauty of the Divine Spark – Breslau and the Reception of Yehuda Halevi’s Sefer Kuzari (1877–1911), in: Transversal – Journal for Jewish Studies, 2016; 14 (1), p. 26-34.

“Scholasticism is a Daughter of Judaism” - The Discovery of Jewish Influence on Medieval Christian Thought, in: Journal of the History of Ideas, 2017 No. 3, 319-340

“Renewed Messianic Thought in Nineteenth Century Germany: A Dispute between Moses Hess and Leopold Loew”, in: DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah 84 (2017), p. V-XXIII.

“Heinrich Graetz and the Kabbalah”, in: Kabbalah - Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts, vol. 40, 2018, p. 107-130.

“Against the Heteronomy of Halacha – Hermann Cohen’s Implicit Rejection of Kant’s Critique of Judaism”, in: Dinei Israel Yearbook, vol 32, 2018, p. 189-209.

“Is there Room for Belief in Judaism? Two German-Jewish Thinkers Debate Dogma in 1834”, in: Jewish Thought - Journal of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought volume 1:1 (2019), p. 89-114.

“Yehuda Halevi's Kuzari and the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1840–1865)”, Jewish Quarterly Review, Volume 109, Number 3, Summer 2019, p. 335-359.

“Theology as a Discipline of the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1830-1910) – An Overview”, in DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah 88 (2019), p. 65-88.

“The Pattern for Jewish Reformation” – The Impact of Lessing’s Dynamic Theology on Nineteenth-Century German Jewish Religious Thought, in: Harvard Theological Review 113:2 (2020), p. 263–284.

“Die Vernünftigkeit des jüdischen Dogmas - Samuel Holdheims Kritik an Mendelssohns Religionsphilosophie”, in Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 72,4 (2020), p. 371-389.

“The Claim to "Hidden Truths" as the Reason for the Rejection of Kabbalah by the Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in Jewish Thought - Journal of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, volume 2 (2020), p. 133-155.

“The Birth of Modern Jewish Theology: Reactions to Bruno Bauer’s Secular Supersessionism”, In: Journal for the History of Modern Theology, 2021, p. 1-20

Moses Mendelssohn as an Influence on Hermann Cohen’s “Idiosyncratic” Reading of Maimonides’ Ethics, in: Religions 2023, 14(1), 65.

“The Talmudic Rabbi as Triage Officer: Decision-Making in Times of COVID-19”, in: Religions 2024, 15 (3), 344.

Reviewed essays in books

“Maimonides and Ethical Monotheism – The Influence of the Guide of the Perplexed on German Reform Judaism”, in: James T. Robinson (ed.) The Cultures of Maimonideanism, Brill (2009), p. 309-334.

„Ein notwendiger Fehler der Weltgeschichte - Ludwig Philippsons Auseinandersetzung mit dem Christentum“, in: Görge K. Hasselhoff (ed.) Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin 2010, p. 33-62.

Judaism Buried or Revitalised? ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’ in Nineteenth Century Germany – Impact, Actuality and Applicability Today, in: Daniel J. Lasker (ed.),  Jewish Thought and Jewish Belief, Beer Sheva 2012, p. 27-63.

 „Eine verpasste Gelegenheit: Abraham Geigers lebenslang spannungsvolles Verhältnis zur Religionsphilosophie des Maimonides“, in: Christian Wiese (ed.) Jüdische Existenz in der Moderne: Abraham Geiger und die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Berlin 2013, p. 249-274

„Keine Brücke zwischen Begriff und Welt - Orthodoxe Kritik an der Religionsphilosophie Hermann Cohens”, in: Eveline Goodman-Thau und Hans-Georg Flickinger (ed.), Zur Aktualität des Unzeitgemäßen - Beiträge zum Jüdischen Denken, Reiner Wiehl zum Andenken, Nordhausen 2013, 111-140.

“Prayers for the Messiah in the Thought of Early Reform Judaism“, in: Uri Ehrlich (ed.) Jewish Prayer: New Perspectives, Beer Sheva 2016, 5-29.

“Ludwig Philippson on Biblical Monotheism: Jewish Religious Philosophy between Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen “, in: Jewish Historiography between Past and Future. 200 Years of Wissenschaft des Judentums, ed. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Rachel Livneh-Freudenthal, and Guy Miron, de Gruyter, NY 2019, p. 181-196.

“Hermann Cohen und die Aufhebung der christlichen Alleinherrschaft in der Kultur“, in Nationalismus und Religion – Zu Hermann Cohens 100. Todestag, ed. E. Goodman-Thau and G. Y. Kohler, Heidelberg 2019, p. 61-73

“The Rediscovery of Gersonides as a Religious Philosopher by the Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in Gad Freudenthal et al (ed.), Gersonides’ Afterlife - Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre,  Brill 2020, p. 550-568.

"“Humankind is Advancing”. Samuel Hirsch’s Rediscovery of Messianism and its Consequences for Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy". in: Samuel Hirsch: Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer, edited by Judith Frishman and Thorsten Fuchshuber, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 161-180.

“Kantianische Irrtümer und freiheitlicher Sozialismus – Hermann Cohens Einfluss auf Kurt Eisner” in: Bettina Bannasch and George Y. Kohler (ed.) Emanzipation nach der Emanzipation - Jüdische Literatur, Philosophie und Geschichte um 1900, Vienna University Press 2024, p. 81-102.