 Winner—"Best Book of the Year" Publishers Weekly! |
 American Library Association's Choice—Outstanding Academic Book of the Year! |
 Finalist—National Jewish Book Award, Non-Fiction! |
“This work is not addressed only to
scholars of Judaism or theologians, but also, and primarily, to
all Jews and non-Jews who would like to share the thoughts and
struggles of a person who loves Torah and Halakhah, who is
committed to helping make room for and celebrate the religious
and cultural diversity present in the modern world, and who
believes that a commitment to Israel and to Jewish
particularity must be organically connected to the rabbinic
teaching, ‘Beloved are all human beings created in the
image of God.’”
—from the Introduction
With clarity, passion, and outstanding
scholarship, David Hartman addresses the spiritual and
theological questions that face all Jews and all people today.
From the perspective of traditional Judaism, he helps us
understand the varieties of twentieth-century Jewish practice
and shows that commitment to both Jewish tradition and to
pluralism can create bridges of understanding between people of
different religious convictions.
“This is a book that ought to be
read by everyone who is seriously interested in Judaism, or,
for that matter, in what it means to be a religious person in a
pluralistic age.”
—Hilary
Putnam, Cogan University
Professor, Harvard University
“This is not just a book for
Jews.... Hartman stands in the tradition of Abraham Joshua
Heschel as a Jew who can speak to both his own people and to
others with equal clarity.”
—Harvey
Cox, Professor of Divinity, Harvard
University; author of Fire from
Heaven
“An extraordinary book, steeped in
tradition, devoid of stereotypic thinking; lucid and pertinent,
a modern classic.”
—Rabbi
Harold M. Schulweis, author of For Those Who Can't Believe
“Will prove indispensable to anyone
interested in modern religious and social thought.”
—American Library
Association’s Booklist
“In A
Heart of Many Rooms David
Hartman has given us that rarest of phenomena, an internal
Jewish dialogue between the voices of tradition and modernity,
Orthodoxy and Reform, religion and secularity, skepticism and
faith. Thoughtful, provocative, imaginative in its reach,
generous in its embrace, this is a work to challenge and
enlarge us all.”
—Professor
Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the
United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth
