From Spinoza to Lévinas

Biographical notes

Ze'ev Levy (Author) Yudit Kornberg Greenberg (Editor)

The Author: Ze’ev Levy is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Haifa and was also a guest professor at the University of Heidelberg, the Hochschule für jüdische Studien, and the University of Kassel in Germany as well as at the University of Binghamton and at Queens College in the United States. He is the author of numerous books including Between Yafeth and Shem: On the Relationship Between Jewish and General Philosophy (Lang, 1987) and Baruch or Benedict: On Some Jewish Aspects in Spinoza’s Philosophy (Lang, 1989). His main fields of interest are structuralism, ethics, hermeneutics, Spinoza, and Lévinas. The Editor: Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the Cornell Endowed Chair of Religion and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Dr. Greenberg is the author of Better Than Wine: Love, Poetry and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig (1996) and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (2007). She has written articles on topics in modern and contemporary Jewish thought and is presently completing a manuscript on love in Jewish thought.