Outputs (61)

The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defense of Pluralism (2024)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (2025). The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defense of Pluralism. German Life and Letters, 78(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12433

Moses Mendelssohn's ‘Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism’ (1783) was a milestone in the promotion of religious toleration – a principle that is constitutive for human rights in their contemporary conception. This article argues that ‘Jerusal... Read More about The Legacy of Toleration: J.G Herder and Moses Mendelssohn’s Defense of Pluralism.

Soft Paternity: The Binding of Isaac in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (in press). Soft Paternity: The Binding of Isaac in Contemporary Hebrew Poetry. In Aqedah: Genesis 22 as a Challenge for the Rationality of Religion in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. De Gruyter

Arendt against Scholem: Jewish History, Reconsidered (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (in press). Arendt against Scholem: Jewish History, Reconsidered. In A. Bielik-Robson (Ed.), Spiritual Investment in the World: Jewish Theologies of Worldliness. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt’s Variations on St. Augustine (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt’s Variations on St. Augustine. In D. Herskowitz, & E. Lapidot (Eds.), Hans Jonas: The Early Years. Routledge

Jews and Exile and the Jews: Literature, History and Identity edited by Nancy E. Berg and Marc Saperstein (2024)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (in press). Jews and Exile and the Jews: Literature, History and Identity edited by Nancy E. Berg and Marc Saperstein. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies,

Jewish Migration in Literature and the Visual Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2024). Jewish Migration in Literature and the Visual Arts. In A. Rowlands, & E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook for Religion and Contemporary Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190076511.013.4

This chapter offers a cultural history of Jewish migration and Diaspora since the beginning of the twentieth century. The examination focuses on literary and artistic alternate histories that pertain to the demography of the global Jewish population.... Read More about Jewish Migration in Literature and the Visual Arts.

Religion (2024)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2024). Religion. In C. Lee (Ed.), Goethe in Context (66-74). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009036436

A conflicted attraction to religion characterises Goethe’s oeuvre as much as it informed his intellectual dilemmas and public polemics. His works demonstrate a long-standing fascination with religion as a social power and, correspondingly, with the... Read More about Religion.

Beyond the Land Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century by Melissa Weininger (2024)
Journal Article
Almog, Y. (in press). Beyond the Land Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century by Melissa Weininger. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies,

The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire (2023)
Book Chapter
Almog, Y. (2023). The Song of Songs in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany: Theology and Desire. In A. Schellenberg (Ed.), The Song of Songs Through the Ages (347-362). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110750799

Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit (2023)
Book
Herder, J. G. (in press). Y. Almog (Ed.), Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der Menschheit. The Open University of Israel