Eliezer Berkovits

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Eliezer Berkovits (1908, Nagyvarad – 20 August 1992), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator. He was a rabbi in Modern Orthodox Judaism.

He served in the rabbinate in Berlin (1934–39), in Leeds, England (1940-46), in Sydney, Australia (1946–50), and in Boston (1950–58). In 1958 he became chairman of the department of Jewish philosophy of the Hebrew Theological College in Chicago. He immigrated to Israel in 1976 where he taught and lectured until his death in 1992.

He wrote 19 books in English, Hebrew and German and lectured extensively in those languages. His writings deal with basic issues of faith, spirituality and law in the creative dialogue between religion and modernity, with an emphasis on halakha in the State of Israel and on halakha relating to marriage and women. His thought is in essence a philosophy of morality and history for contemporary society.

[edit] Bibliography

• God, Man, and History (1959)
• A Jewish Critique of the Philosophy of Martin Buber (1962)
• Faith After the Holocaust (1973).
• contributions in Judaism & Tradition
• "Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Halakha" (1983)

[edit] External links

• The New York Times