Hermann Cohen, ‘Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism’

Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle. Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism. By Hermann Cohen, translated by Simon Kaplan. Introduction by Leo Strauss. Frederick Ungar. New York. 1972. $15. The Jacket blurb of this book correctly describes Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) as the greatest Jewish philosopher since the Enlightenment: A real philosopher of international…