Omri Boehm

Israeli author and philosopher

Omri Boehm

Born| 1979
Gilon, Israel
Occupation| Author, professor
Genre| Non-fiction
Subject| Philosophy, religion, politics

Omri Boehm (Hebrew: עמרי בהם, born 1979) is an Israeli philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research.[1][2] He is known for his interpretation of the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), work on Kant, and writing on Israel and Zionism.[3][4][5]

## Life and career

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Boehm grew up in the Galilee.[6] He studied at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University and earned his PhD at Yale University.[7] He did a post-doc at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2010.[8] He is associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research based in New York City.

Boehm’s first book, The Binding of Isaac: a Religious Model of Disobedience, argues (contending that the verse in which God tells Abraham not to kill Isaac is a later addition) that Abraham disobeyed God’s command to sacrifice his son Isaac, and disobedience rather than obedience is the corner of Jewish faith.[9] His second book, Kant’s Critique of Spinoza, argues that the Critique of Pure Reason needs to be read as an answer to Spinoza’s Ethics. His latest book, Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel, develops a model for bi-national Zionism. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Haaretz and Die Zeit, among others.[10][11]

## Books

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* Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel ISBN 978-1-68137-393-5
* Israel – eine Utopie (German Edition) ISBN 978-3-5491000-7-3
* Kant's Critique of Spinoza ISBN 978-0-1993548-0-1
* The Binding of Isaac: a Religious Model of Disobedience ISBN 978-0567026132

## References

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1. ^ "Omri Boehm". newschool.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
2. ^ "Die Idee einer jüdischen Demokratie sei ein Widerspruch in sich, sagt Omri Boehm. Und plädiert für eine binationale Republik". taz.de. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
3. ^ The binding of Isaac : a religious model of disobedience. OCLC 741691429. Retrieved 2020-08-22 - via worldcat.org.
4. ^ "Kant's Critique of Spinoza". philpapers.org. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
5. ^ "Did Israel Just Stop Trying to Be a Democracy?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
6. ^ "Omri Boehm on Avi Shavit's Promised Land". bu.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
7. ^ Hutter, Axel; Rasmussen, Anders Moe (April 2014). Kierkegaard im Kontext des deutschen Idealismus. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110252798. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
8. ^ "Prof. Omri Boehm". philosophie.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
9. ^ "Table of contents for The binding of Isaac : a religious model of disobedience / Omri Boehm". catdir.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
10. ^ "Liberal Zionism in the Age of Trump". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
11. ^ "How Israelis could agree to share a state with Palestinians". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2020-08-22.

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