André Neher
Template:Short description André Neher (22 October 1914 – 23 October 1988) was a French Jewish scholar and philosopher.
Biography
Neher was born in Obernai, Bas-Rhin. He was a student at the Collège Freppel in Obernai, then at the Lycée Fustel de Coulange in Strasbourg. He became professor at the Collège Erckmann-Chatrian in Phalsbourg, then at the Lycée Kléber in Strasbourg. During World War II, he lived in Brive-la-Gaillarde, where he was a member of Rabbi David Feuerwerker's community. After the War, he became a professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1948. In 1974, at age 60, Neher moved with his wife, Renée Neher-Bernheim to Jerusalem, Israel.[1]
L'Exil de la Parole
His masterpiece is The Exile of the Word (L'Exil de la parole. Du silence biblique au silence d'Auschwitz, Ed. Seuil, 1970), about the biblical silence, and God's silence after the Shoah and the great world tragedies.[2] Neher thinks that through the Bible's silence one can discover divine revelation; through the silence human freedom is possible. He draws on the image of a suspension bridge to describe human "ontological insecurity and pain" caused by this freedom, which is characterized by a "radical factor of uncertainty". For this reason it is necessary to concentrate our attention not on the ideas of redemption or salvation, but on "being here in our life".[3]
Writings
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1946; Transcendence and immanence)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1950; Amos, contribution to the study of the prophecy)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1955; Quality of Prophecy)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1951; Notes on Ecclesiastes)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1956; Moses and the Jewish vocation)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1958; The conflict of sacred and profane in the renaissance of Hebrew)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1960; Jeremiah)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1962; Biblical history of the people of Israel) — with Renée Neher
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1962; The Jewish Existence)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1962; The Well of the Exile, dialectical theology of Maharal of Prague)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1969; From Hebrew to French) — a manual for translating the Hebrew language into French
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1970; The Exile of the Word, from the silence of the Bible to the silence of Auschwitz)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1972; Within your gates, Jerusalem)
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1979; They rebuilt their soul) Template:ISBN
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1984; Jerusalem, Lived Jerusalem And Message) Template:ISBN
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1974; David Gans, 1541-1613 : disciple of Maharal, assistant of Tycho Brahe and of Johannes Kepler) Template:ISBN; English translation as Jewish thought and the scientific revolution of the sixteenth century : David Gans (1541-1613) and his times (1986) OUP. Template:ISBN.
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (1987; Faust and Maharal of Prague : myth and reality) Template:ISBN.
- "At the methodological crossroad: The dispute with Eliezer Ashkenazi" in Rabbinic Theology and Jewish Intellectual History: The Great Rabbi Loew of Prague (2013) Template:ISBN
See also
Notes
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External links
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- 1914 births
- 1988 deaths
- 20th-century French rabbis
- Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
- Alsatian Jews
- Jewish philosophers
- People from Obernai
- Philosophers of Judaism
- Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
- French Orthodox Jews
- Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives