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Rabbi Reuven Agushewitz, a Lithuanian Talmudic genius, emigrated to the
United States in 1929. He supported himself by giving Talmud lessons to
young boys (some of his Talmudic novellae were published posthumously
under the title Bi'ur Reuven on Bava Kamma with letters of approbation
from R. Aharon Kotler and R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik). A complete
autodidact in philosophy, Agushewitz frequented the halls of the New
York Public Library on 42th street, where he acquired an astounding
familiarity with philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary philosophy.
He managed to published three philosophical works in the Yiddish
language before his untimely death in 1950, on his first trip to the
new State of Israel, to whose founding he was passionately dedicated.
The present volume is a translation of his last book, Emune un
Apikorses, published in 1948. It is a sustained attack on the
philosophy of materialism, in all its historical versions, from the
Greek to modern times--including the Marxist version, to which
Agushewitz had been attracted as a youth. Though a highly original work
of philosophy (perhaps the only original work of philosophy ever
written in Yiddish), it contains valuable discussions of some of the
greatest Western philosophers, including the great Greek atomists;
Zeno; Aristotle; Descartes; Spinoza; Kant; Bergson; Russell; and many
others. This translation will rescue this outstanding philosopher and
Yiddish writer from the obscurity which has enveloped him for over half
a century.
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