Episode details
Podcast: The Podcast of Jewish Ideas
Episode date: May 30, 2024
Speakers: J.J. Kimche
Categories: Jewish thought, History, Modern History, Jewish History, Society, Jews and Gentiles
Episode description
J.J. and Dr. Susannah Heschel survey the fascinating life and brilliant ideas of Abraham Geiger. This guy was flagrantly influential. A practicing rabbi, a leader in the Wissenschaft das Judentums movement and a founder of Islamic studies in Europe, he was on the intellectual vanguard of the 19th century Reform movement, so strap in for a great conversation.