Arthur A. Cohen

Jan 14, 2025 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Adam Kirsch |Akiva Schick |Arthur A. Cohen |Jacob Taubes

Belknap Press 384 pp., $37.95 In the French edition of Simone Weil’s collected works published by Gallimard, a volume is devoted to “Family Correspondence,” consisting of letters Weil wrote to her parents, Bernard and Selma, and her older brother, André, a brilliant mathematician. These have now been translated into English under the title A Life in Letters, but what is most interesting and important about Weil’s life can be deduced from these letters only by omission.

Aug 12, 2023 | commentary.org | Arthur A. Cohen

How can it be that Christianity, regarding itself the successor and completion of Judaism, should have elected to take into itself the body and substance of that Jewish teaching which it believed to be defective, which it regarded itself as having in measure rejected, in measure transformed, in measure repaired and fulfilled?