Introduction: Thinking Jewish modernity / Jacques Picard, Jacques Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Judaism essential and mysterious / Lydia Flem
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917): modern society and the Jews / Bruno Karsenti
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904): sovereignty and the two Palestines / Raef Zreik
Simon Dubnow (1860-1941): reluctant secularism / Dan Diner
Bernard Lazare (1865-1903): radical modernism and Jewish identity / Nathaniel Berman
Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook (1865-1935): revelation and redemption / Yehudah Mirsky
Aby Warburg (1866-1929): "Thinking Jewish" in modernity / Griselda Pollock
Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): Bildung, prescription, prophecy / Leon Botstein
Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945): poetic redemption / Vivian Liska
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): universalism and particularism / Kevin B. Anderson and Peter Hudis
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): sonic allegories / Ruth Hacohen
Martin Buber (1878-1965): the theopolitical hour / Christoph Schmidt
Albert Einstein (1879-1955): solidarity and ambivalence / Robert Schulmann
Horace Kallen (1882-1974): pragmatic modernism / Jacques Picard
Franz Kafka (1883-1924): wiring in motion / Galili Shahar
David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973): the politicization of the Jews / Yaron Ezrahi
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929): on the idea of diaspora / Peter E. Gordon
René Cassin (1887-1976): human rights and Jewish internationalism / Samuel Moyn
Shmuel Yoseph Agnon (1888-1970): baptism by fire / Ariel Hirschfeld
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940): anti-apocalyptic world politics / Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Peretz Markish (1895-1952): modern Marxist and Yiddishist / David Shneer and Robert Adler Peckerar
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982): mystical modernism / David Biale
Leo Strauss (1899-1973): Protestant Judaism and its Islamic remedy / Leora F. Batnitzky
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994): a believer's voyage / Avi Sagi
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969): Auschwitz and commodity fetishism / Moshe Zuckermann
Mark Rothko (1903-1970): beyond absence / Ulrike Gehring
Elias Canetti (1905-1994): a difficult contemporary / Galin Tihanov
Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995): tradition and its other / Raphael Zagury-Orly
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): being in the present / Martine Leibovici
Arnaldo Momigliano (1908-1987): Judaism past and present / Silvia Berti
Simone Weil (1909-1943): a Jewish thinker? / Maud S. Mandel
Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997): unpretentious passion / Yuli Tamir
Nathan Alterman (1910-1970): poetry national and political / Hannan Hever
Saul Bellow (1915-2005): Athens and Jerusalem / Steven Jaron
Primo Levi (1919-1987): memory and enlightenment / Enzo Traverso
Paul Celan (1920-1970): the word proscribed / Arnau Pons
Clarice Lispector (1920-1977): Nelson H. Vieira
Juan Gelman (1930-2014): The bereaved bird / Pablo Kirtchuk
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004): Judeities / Joseph Cohen
Philip Roth (1933- ): writing the American Jewish community / Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi
Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936-2005): poetry, power, powerlessness / Chana Kronfeld and Chana Bloch
Joel and Ethan Cohen (1954- /1957- ): finding Rabbi Marshak / Daniel Herwitz
Judith Butler (1956- ): between ethics and politics / Bonnie Honig and John Wolfe Ackerman.
