Eveline Goodman-Thau

Eveline Goodman - Thau ( born 1934 in Vienna ) is a Jewish studies, professor of Jewish religious and intellectual history and describes himself as " unorthodox rabbi ," albeit without formally recognized ordination. She is the founder of Hermann Cohen Academy of Religion, Science and the Arts in Buchen (Odenwald ).

Life

Thau fled after the annexation of Austria by Nazi German Reich 1938 with her ​​parents, her grandmother and two sisters in Holland and survived the Holocaust in hiding. In 1945, she was Dutch citizen. Since 1956 she is married to Moshe Goodman, has five children and lives in Jerusalem.

Academic career

She studied English Literature, Philosophy, Jewish religious and intellectual history at the University of Amsterdam and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She received her PhD in 1993 in Kassel The Messianic basic experience in the Jewish tradition. In 1990, she took the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel true. Since 1994 she has been a visiting professor in Oldenburg, Halle ( Saale ), Bern, at the Harvard Divinity School (1998-1999 ) and active in Vienna. 2000 was her habilitation in Kassel. Currently she is a visiting professor of Jewish cultural philosophy at the University of Vienna and lecturer at the University of Kassel.

Goodman - Thau has authored numerous publications on Jewish philosophy and women and gender studies, which also gave the Christian feminist theology thought.

In 1998 she founded the " Hermann Cohen Academy of Religion, Science and Art" in Buchen / Odenwald, which it projects as a director.

2005/ 06 was Goodman - Thau Fellow of the College Friedrich Nietzsche.

Rabbi

In 2000, she was after a private ordination in Jerusalem Rabbi. In 2001 she became the first Austrian church leader in the progressive synagogue Or Hadash in Vienna and held that post until 2002.

Award

  • Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in Silver ( 2005)

Works

  • In search of identity. Orthodox women in Israel. In: Renate Jost, Ursula Kubera (eds.): Liberation has many colors. Feminist theology as contextual theology of liberation. Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh, 1991, ISBN 3-579-00534-0 ( Siebenstern-Taschenbuch. band 534 ), pp. 121-137.
  • Between yesterday and tomorrow. Life in the crack of History and Biography. In: Wolf Dietrich - Smith Kowarzik (ed.): re-presentations of the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel from 1987 to 1998. Kassel 1997, ISBN 3-7281-2518-0.
  • Revolt of the water. Jewish hermeneutics between tradition and modernity. Philo -Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 2002.
  • A Rabbi in Vienna. Considerations. Czernin Verlag, Vienna, 2003.
  • Illa Meisels: Remembrance of hearts. With an afterword by Eveline Goodman - Thau. Czernin Verlag, Vienna, 2004.
  • Heritage and renewal. Cultural philosophy from the sources of Judaism. Picus, Vienna 2004.
  • (Ed.) The Jewish heritage of Europe. Crisis of culture in the field of tension between tradition, history and identity. Philo -Verlag, Berlin, 2005.
  • Love and redemption. The Book of Ruth. Münster 2006.
  • (Ed.) The own remembering. Commemorative culture between reality and normality. Passages - Verlag, Wien 2007, ISBN 978-3-85165-661-9 (Jewish passages. Volume 1, Book Preview at Libreka ).
  • (Ed.) In the dialogue / In Dialogue. Martin Buber Yearbook / Martin Buber Yearbook. LIT Verlag, Münster 2007ff.
  • Ethos Europe. On the question of the Jewish West. In: The curiosity of the lucky ones. Edited by B. Christoph Streckhardt. Publisher of the Bauhaus University Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-86068-474-0
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