Three Stars of Redemption The Influential Women in the Life of Franz Rosenzweig

"Shevitz has written an important intellectual history that makes a significant contribution to existing scholarship with a fresh analysis of key figures who have previously been overlooked. Clearly and engagingly written, the book convincingly challenges the privatization of thinking by amplifying these women's voices and highlighting their central contributions to philosophy and life, which are deftly shown to be intertwined." -Andrea Dara Cooper, author of Gendering Modern Jewish Thought

"Three Stars of Redemption is extremely well researched and remarkably comprehensive, and it tells the intertwining stories of three women who played crucial roles in the intellectual, spiritual, and personal development of Franz Rosenzweig, one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century." -Benjamin Pollock, author of Franz Rosenzweig's Conversions: World Denial and World Redemption

"Three Stars of Redemption explores the web of changing relationships between Franz Rosenzweig's mother, Adele, his wife, Edith, and his lover Margrit. This book contributes to Rosenzweig research, which until now did not pay sufficient attention to the interwovenness of the lives of these three women. Without them, our understanding of Rosenzweig's life and work remained incomplete." -Ephraim Meir, author of The Marvel of Relatedness and former president of the International Rosenzweig Society