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Love Is Strong as Death: A Biography of Franz Rosenzweig

Love Is Strong as Death: A Biography of Franz Rosenzweig

Mendes-Flohr, Paul

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralJudaism

ISBN10: 0226843254
ISBN13: 9780226843254
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Mar 19 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.87 Depth: 8.57
Language: English
A brilliant and engaging biography of one of the great modern Jewish thinkers.

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germany. His masterwork, The Star of Redemption (1921), is a classic of existential thought and Jewish philosophy, and his considerable legacy also includes his collaboration with Martin Buber on a key translation of the Hebrew Bible into German and the establishment of an education center in Frankfurt that brought together the most important young German-Jewish intellectuals of its time.

Rosenzweig's personal biography is no less fascinating than his ideas and accomplishments. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rosenzweig's unpublished personal correspondence, Paul Mendes-Flohr skillfully weaves together the threads of Rosenzweig's life to give us a moving portrait of this towering figure--from his near-conversion to Christianity to his tragic diagnosis with ALS. Mendes-Flohr also closely explores Rosenzweig's relationship with Margrit Huessy, who was a vital intellectual partner for Rosenzweig, as well as a muse and lover. He worked out many of his ideas about love both in conversation and consort with her, and Mendes-Flohr shows the importance of intimacy--both romantic and platonic--in the development of Rosenzweig's thought.

Love Is Strong as Death provides a unique and insightful look at one of the most important modern Jewish thinkers.

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