Holiness in Jewish Thought

Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. His publications include Human Nature and Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter (Princeton University Press, 2015) and A Short History of Jewish Ethics: Conduct and Character in the Context of Covenant (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

List of contributors
Introduction: Holiness and Jewish Thought, Alan L. Mittleman
1. Reclaiming the Priestly Theology, Elsie R. Stern
2. Holiness in the Rabbinic Period, Tzvi Novick
3. Why is Holiness Not Contagious?, Martin Lockshin
4. Holiness and the Land of Israel, Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
5. Gratitude, Humility, and Holiness in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: A Rationalist Current, Jonathan Jacobs
6. Maimonides on Holiness, Menachem Kellner
7. Israel as a Holy People in Medieval Kabbalah, Hartley Lachter
8. Shabbat and Sacred Time in Later Hasidic Mysticism, Eitan P. Fishbane
9. Holiness in Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber, William Plevan
10. Holiness and the Holocaust: Emil Fackenheim and the Challenge of Historicism, Sharon Portnoff
Afterword: Holiness, Reason, and Romanticism, Lenn E. Goodman