Yaakov Malkin

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Yaakov Malkin


Born
in Warsaw, Poland
August 03, 1926

Died
July 21, 2019

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Yaakov Malkin was an intellectual, educator, writer, literary critic, and professor emeritus in the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University. Malkin was active in several cultural and educational institutions that deal with cultural and humanistic Judaism.

Malkin was born in Warsaw, Poland, to a secular Jewish family. His father, Dov Ber Malkin, was a professor and theatre critic. He attended the Bund school. He moved to Mandatory Palestine at age 7, where he continued his schooling in the school system of the Histadrut labor federation. In 1950 he married the artist Felice Pazner Malkin and they had two children, Professor Irad Malkin (2004 Israel Prize Laureate) and Rabbi Sivan Malkin Maas. He died two weeks before his 93rd birthday in his J
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Secular Jewish Culture

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“Criticism of the sanctity of books such as the Qur’an was voiced by the Mu’tazilites, who claimed that the Qur’an should not be seen as a divine work, but rather as a work of literature.Caliph al-Ma’mun shared this belief, and applied rational criticism to religious texts”
Yaakov Malkin, Epicurus & Apikorsim. The Influence of The Greek Epicurus and Jewish Apikorsim on Judaism

“Epicurus was a philosopher who asserted a deistic worldview, i.e. one in which the gods are wholly separate from the universe and human affairs. This approach denied divine involvement in the creation of the world or administration of nature and its laws, and freed man from the obligation to make offerings, pray to the gods, or observe the precepts devised by religious leaders.”
Yaakov Malkin, Epicurus & Apikorsim. The Influence of The Greek Epicurus and Jewish Apikorsim on Judaism

“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to resolve all social and economic problems, generally resulting in economic stagnation and mass impoverishment.”
Yaakov Malkin, Epicurus & Apikorsim. The Influence of The Greek Epicurus and Jewish Apikorsim on Judaism