André Neher
André Neher (1914-1988) was a Jewish scholar and philosopher, born 12, rue du Marche, in Obernai, Bas-Rhin. He was a student at the College Freppel in Obernai, then at the Lycee Fustel de Coulange in Strasbourg. He became professor at the College Erckmann-Chatrian in Sarrebourg, then at the Lycee Kleber in Strasbourg. During WII, 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, before moving with his wife, Renee Neher-Bernheim, to Jerusalem, Israel.
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.[1] Neher thinks that through the biblical silence you can find the divine revelation: through the silence it’s possible the human freedom. His idea of suspension bridge indicates the human “ontological insecurity and pain” caused by this freedom, that’s 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 “to be here in our life”.[2]
L'espoir n'est pas dans le rire et dans la plénitude.
L'espoir est dans les larmes, dans le risque et dans leur silence
— (André Neher, L'Exil... p.256)
Hope is not in the laugh or fullness.
Hope is in the tears, in the risk and in their silence
— (André Neher, L'Exil... p.256)
Writings
- Transcendance et immanence (1946; Transcendence and immanence)
- Amos, contribution à l'étude du prophétism (1950; Amos, contribution to the study of the prophecy)
- L'Essence du Prophétisme (1955; Quality of Prophecy)
- Notes sur Qohélét (1951; Notes on Ecclesiastes)
- Moïse et la vocation juive (1956; Moses and the Jewish vocation)
- Le conflit du sacré et du profane dans la renaissance de l'Hébreu (1958; The conflict of sacred and profane in the renaissance of Hebrew)
- Jérémie (1960; Jeremiah)
- Histoire biblique du peuple d'Israël (1962; Biblical history of the people of Israel) — with Renée Neher
- L'Existence Juive (1962; The Jewish Existence)
- Le Puits de L'Exil, la théologie dialectique du Maharal de Prague (1962; The Well of the Exile, dialectical theology of Maharal of Prague)
- De l'hébreu au français : manuel de l'hébraïsant: la traduction (1969; From Hebrew to French) — a manual for translating the Hebrew language into French
- L'exil de la Parole. Du silence biblique au silence d'Auschwitz (1970; The exile of the Word, from the silence of the Bible to the silence of Auschwitz)
- Dans tes portes, Jérusalem (1972; Within your gates, Jerusalem)
- Ils ont refait leur ame (1979; They rebuilt their soul) ISBN 2-234-01192-2
- Jerusalem, Vecu Juif Et Message(1984; Jerusalem, Lived Jerusalem And Message) ISBN 2-268-00287-X
- David Gans, 1541-1613 : disciple du Maharal, assistant de Tycho Brahe et de Jean Kepler (1974; David Gans, 1541-1613 : disciple of Maharal, assistant of Tycho Brahe and of Johannes Kepler) ISBN 2-252-01723-6; English translation as Jewish thought and the scientific revolution of the sixteenth century : David Gans (1541-1613) and his times (1986) OUP. ISBN 978-0197100578.
- Faust et le Maharal de Prague : le mythe et le réel (1987; Faust and Maharal of Prague : myth and reality) ISBN 2-130-39777-8.
See also
References
- ^ David Patterson, Some theological aspects..., on The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 548, No. 1, 200-218 (1996)
- ^ Sergio Quinzio, La Croce e il Nulla, Adelphi ed., Milan 1984, p.33
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