Word: rosenzweig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROSENZWEIG...
...pages by means of air between the lines, tiny type blocks, and large page numbers. The space fraud does not matter, but the unfulfilled expectation of substance does. There is only one major character, and he is not very interesting, even to himself. His name is Adam Rosenzweig, a young Bavarian Jew whose crippled left foot requires him to wear a special boot (his Jewishness makes him an outcast and his lameness, melodramatically, makes him doubly so-Warren still does not trust his own skill). Exalted with a vision of freedom, Adam decides to migrate to the U.S. to fight...
...editing could be better. There are moments, for example, in Daniel Leifer's otherwise absorbing critique of Aaron David Gordon, when one chokes on dusty, academic prose. Prose aside, I think this piece is the best of the lot. Leifer rightly ranks Gordon with Buber and Rosenzweig as the most influential of this century's unorthodox European Jews, and he insists persuasively that Gordon is not so much the famed ideologue of Zionism's "religion of labor," as a theologian who fused strains of European romanticism into a new definition of Judaism. Certainly Gordon had a romantic sense...