Primary Literature

Cited Works of Leibowitz

• Torah u-Mitzvot ba-Zeman ha-Zeh [Torah and Commandments in Our Time], Tel Aviv: Schocken, 1954. Cited as Torah u-Mitzvot. (Scholar)
• Yahadut, Am Yehudi u-Medinat Yisrael [Judaism, the Jewish People, and the State of Israel], Tel Aviv: Schocken, 1975. Cited as Yahadut. (Scholar)
• Emunah, Historiah, ve-Arakhim [Faith, History, and Values], Jerusalem: Academon, 1982. Cited as Emunah. (Scholar)
• Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State, Eliezer Goldman (ed.), Eliezer Goldman, Yoram Navon, Zvi Jacobson, Gershon Levi, and Raphael Levy (trans.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Cited as Judaism. [This is a selection of articles from the above Hebrew collections, translated into English.] (Scholar)
• Sihot al Mada ve-Arakhim [Conversations on Science and Values], Tel Aviv: Misrad ha-Bitahon Publications, 1985. Cited as Mada
• Yeshayahu Leibowitz al Olam u-Melo’o, Sihot im Michael Shashar [Yeshayahu Leibowitz On Just About Everything: Talks with Michael Shashar], Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1988. Cited as Sihot (Scholar)
• Accepting the Yoke of Heaven: Commentary on the Weekly Torah Portion, Shmuel Himelstein (trans.), New York: Urim Publications, 2002. Cited as Accepting the Yoke. [This is a translation of radio broadcasts originally published as He’arot le-Parshiyot ha-Shavua (Notes to the Weekly Torah Reading), Jerusalem: Academon, 1988.] (Scholar)
• “Responses,” [Hebrew], Iyyun 26 (1976), 265–81. [Leibowitz’s responses to a set of articles about his thought published in this issue of the journal Iyyun.] Cited as “Responses” (Scholar)
• Ratziti lish’ol otcha, Professor Leibowitz: Michtavim el Yeshayahu Leibowitz u-mimenu [I Wanted to Ask You Professor Leibowitz: Letters To and From Yeshayahu Leibowitz], Jerusalem: Keter, 1999.Cited as Ratziti (Scholar)

Further Selected Publications of Leibowitz

Study-Group Discussions

• Sihot al Pirke Avot ve-al ha-Rambam [Discourses on the Ethics of the Fathers and on Maimonides], Jerusalem: Schocken, 1979.
• Sihot al Shemoneh Perakim la-Rambam [Conversations on Maimonides’ Eight Chapters], Jerusalem: Keter, 1986. (Scholar)
• Sihot al Mesilat Yesharim la-Ramchal [Conversations on The Paths of the Righteous of Rabbi Moses Hayyim Luzzato], Jerusalem: Greta Leibowitz, 1995.
• Sihot al Torat ha-Nevu’ah shel ha-Rambam [Conversations on Prophecy in Maimonides], Jerusalem: Greta Leibowitz, 1997. (Scholar)
• Sihot al Mivchar Pirkei ha-Hashgachah mitokh “Moreh Nevukhim” shel ha-Rambam [Conversations on Providence in Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed], Jerusalem: Mira Ofran, 2003. (Scholar)
• Sihot al Pirkei ta’amei ha-Mitzvot mitokh “Moreh Nevukhim” shel ha-Rambam [Conversations on the Reasons for the Commandments in Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed], Jerusalem: Mira Ofran, 2003. (Scholar)

Published Broadcasts, Interviews, and Correspondence

• Guf va-Nefesh: Habe’ayah ha-Psikho-Physit [Body and Mind: The Psycho-Physical Problem], Tel Aviv: Misrad ha-Bitahon Publications, 1984. (Scholar)
• Emunato shel ha-Rambam [The Faith of Maimonides], Tel Aviv: Misrad ha-Bitahon Publications, 1985. Translated as The Faith of Maimonides, John Glucker (trans.), New York: Adama Books, 1989. (Scholar)
• Hamisha Sifrei Emunah [Five Books of Faith], Mira Ofran (ed.), Jerusalem: Keter, 1995.
• Sihot al Hagei Yisrael u-Moadav [Discourses on the Jewish Holidays], Jerusalem: Greta Lebowitz, 1999.
• Sheva Shanim shel Sihot al Parashat ha-Shavua [Seven Years of Discourses on the Weekly Torah Reading], Jerusalem: Greta Leibowitz, 2000.
• Mah She-lema’lah u-mah she-lemattah: Dialogim im Toni Lavi [What is Above and What is Below: Dialogues with Toni Lavi], Or Yehuda: Maariv Book Guild, 1997. (Scholar)

Selected Secondary Literature and Works Cited

• Benbassat, Roi, 2015. “Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Jewish Existentialism”, Religious Studies, 51: 141–163. (Scholar)
• Ben-Pazi, Hanoch, 2008. “Leibowitz’s Religious Thought as a Post-Holocaust ‘Radical Theology’” [in Hebrew], Iyyun, 57: 193–202. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. “Theodicy as the Justified Demands of Atheism: Yeshayahu Leibowitz Versus Emmanuel Levinas”, Modern Judaism, 36: 249–276. (Scholar)
• Berlin, Isaiah, 1983. “The Conscience of Israel” [in Hebrew], Ha’aretz, 4 March: 18. (Scholar)
• Brafman, Yonatan, 2015. “Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Axiology: A ‘Polytheism of Values’ and the ‘Most Valuable Value’”, Journal of Religious Ethics, 43(1): 146–168. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014. “Critical Philosophy of Halakha (Jewish Law): The Justification of Halakhic Norms and Authority”, Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. (Scholar)
• Cohen, Hermann, 1919. Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism, Simon Kaplan (trans.), Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. (Scholar)
• Dworkin, Ronald, 1977. Taking Rights Seriously, London: Duckworth. (Scholar)
• Fagenblat, Michael, 2004. “Lacking All Interest: Levinas, Leibowitz, and the Pure Practice of Religion”, Harvard Theological Review, 97: 1–32. (Scholar)
• Flew, Anthony, 1950. “Theology and Falsification”, in New Essays in Philosophical Theology, A. Flew and A. MacIntyre (eds.), London: SCM Press, 1955, 96–130. (Scholar)
• Hartman, David, 1990. Conflicting Visions, New York: Schocken Books. (Scholar)
• Harvey, Zeev, 2002. “Leibowitz on Abrahamic Man, Faith, and Nihilism” [in Hebrew], in Avraham Avi Ha-Ma’aminim, M. Hallamish, H. Kasher, and Y. Silman (eds.), Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 247–352. (Scholar)
• Hellinger, Moshe, 2008. “A Clearly Democratic Religious-Zionist Philosophy: The Early Thought of Yeshayahu Leibowitz”, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 16(2): 253–282. (Scholar)
• Kasher, Asa, 1976. “Paradox – Question Mark” [in Hebrew], Iyyun, 26: 236–41. (Scholar)
• Kasher, Asa and Levinger, Jacob (eds.), 1977. The Yeshayahu Leibowitz Book [in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Agudat ha-Studentim. (Scholar)
• Kasher, Hannah, 2000. “On Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Use of Religious Terminology”, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 10: 27–55. (Scholar)
• Kasher, Naomi, 1976. “Kant’s Ethics and Leibowitz’s View of Religion” [in Hebrew], Iyyun, 26: 242–55. (Scholar)
• Kellner, Menachem, 2006. Must A Jew Believe Anything, 2^nd edition, Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. (Scholar)
• Maimonides, Moses. Guide of the Perplexed, trans. S. Pines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
• Marantz, Haim, 1997. “Bearing witness: morality and religion in the thought of Yeshayahu Leibowitz”, Judaism, 46: 35–45. (Scholar)
• Melzer, Yehuda, 1976. “Ethics and Halakha Once Again” [in Hebrew], Iyyun, 26: 256–64. (Scholar)
• Nadler, Steven, 2006. Spinoza’s Ethics: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Newton, Adam Zachary, 2000. The Fence and the Neighbour, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Ravitzky, Avi (ed.), 2007. Yeshayahu Leibowitz: Between Conservatism and Radicalism, Jerusalem, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. (Scholar)
• Sagi, Avi, 1992. “Rabbi Soloveitchik and Professor Leibowitz as Theoreticians of the Halakhah”, Da’at, 19: 131–48. (Scholar)
• –––, (ed.), 1995. Yeshayahu Leibowitz: His World and Philosophy [in Hebrew], Jerusalem: Keter. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997. “Contending with Modernity: Scripture in the Thought of Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Joseph Soloveitchik”, The Journal of Religion, 77: 421–441. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997a. “Yeshayahu Leibowitz – A Breakthrough in Jewish Philosophy: Religion Without Metaphysics”, Religious Studies, 33: 203–216. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009. Jewish Religion After Theology, Boston: Academic Studies Press. (Scholar)
• Schwarzschild, Steven, 1977. “Moral Radicalism and ‘Middlingness’ in the Ethics of Maimonides,” in The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild, Menachem Kellner (ed.), Albany: SUNY Press, 1990, 137–160. (Scholar)
• Seeskin, Kenneth, 1990. Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age, Albany NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Shatz, David, 2008. “Is There Science in the Bible: An Assessment of Biblical Concordism”, Tradition, 41(2): 198–244. (Scholar)
• Sigad, Ran, 1977. “Leibowitz and Kierkegaard” [in Hebrew], in Sefer Yeshayahu Leibowitz, A. Kasher and Y. Levinger (eds.), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Students’ Union, 42–46. (Scholar)
• Statman, Daniel, 2005. “Negative Theology and the Meaning of the Commandments in Modern Orthodoxy”, Tradition, 39(1): 55–68. (Scholar)