HistoryFigure1865–1935

Abraham Isaac Kook

אברהם יצחק הכהן קוק

Region: Terre d'Israël

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First Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, mystical thinker of religious Zionism. He sought to reconcile tradition, modernity, and national renewal.

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L.J. Kaplan &amp
S.H. Bergman, Faith and Reason (1961)
« Kook (Kuk), Abraham Isaac », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
D. Shatz (eds.), Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality (1994)
J.B. Agus, Banner of Jerusalem (1946)
i. Epstein, Abraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook
N. Rotenstreich, Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times (1968)
B. Efrati, ?azon ha-Ge'ullah be-Mishnat ha-Rav Kook (1959)
S. Avidor, Ha-IshNeged ha-Zerem (1962)
Azkarah… A.I. Kook (1937)
His Life and Times (1951) (1951)
The World of Rav Kook's Thought (1991)
B. Ish-Shalom, Rav Avraham Itzhak HaCohen Kook: Between Rationalism and Mysticism (1995)
L. Jung (ed.), Guardians of our Heritage (1958)
Daat
D. Schwartz, Challenge and Crisis in Rav Kook's Circle
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