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Fackenheim, Emil

Canadian Jew. b: 1916, Halle, Germany. Cat: Rabbi and theologian. Ints: Metaphysics; philosophy of religion; existentialism; history of Jewish thought. Educ: Ordained rabbi, Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judenturns, 1939; emigrated to Canada, 1940; interned as ‘enemy alien’; University of Toronto 1943–5; PhD, 1945. Infls: German idealist philosophy, history of Jewish philosophy, Martin Buber, and his own experience of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust. Appts: Rabbi, Hamilton, Ontario, 1943–8; Lecturer, then Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1945-; Fellow of Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1992–; various Honorary Degrees, LLD and DD.

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  • Metaphysics and Historicity.1961.
  • Quest for Past and Future: Essays in Jewish Theology.1968.
  • The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought.1968.
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  • To Mend the World: Foundations of Future Jewish Thought.1982.
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  • German Philosophy and Jewish Thought.1992.
  • Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy.1996.
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