"On Personal and Public Concerns: Essays in Jewish Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid is a wonderful book for all those interested in a powerful and self-critical analysis of the central problems confronting Jewish existence over the past few decades. The essays contained in this book present in a clear and inspiring manner, the ways in which one of Israel's leading thinkers grapples with questions concerning the character and meaning of Jewish existence in times of radical change; the role to be played by Jewish cultural and educational traditions in the formation of a healthy and just society; as well as with such theological issues as the problem of evil and divine justice in Jewish sources and recent history. In these and other areas, the book reflects the thought of one of the contemporary Jewish world's profoundest intellectuals for whom the universally human and the particularly Jewish are always inextricably tied to each other.".