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Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century

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English
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12 hours 15 minutes
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Advanced

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Observe the time-honored intellectual tradition through which Judaism analyzes, rethinks, and reformulates itself.

Syllabus

01: On Studying Jewish History
02: Defining Modern Jewish History and Thought
03: Cultural Transformation in the Italian Ghetto
04: Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Messianism
05: The Challenge of Baruch Spinoza
06: Moses Mendelssohn and His Generation
07: The Science of Judaism
08: Heinrich Graetz—Jewish Historian
09: Abraham Geiger—The Shaping of Reform Judaism
10: The Neo-Orthodoxy of Samson Raphael Hirsch
11: Zecharias Frankel and Conservative Judaism
12: Samuel David Luzzatto—Judaism and Atticism
13: Zionism's Answer to the Jewish Problem
14: Three Zionist Visions
15: The Jewish Adventure with Socialism
16: Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason
17: Leo Baeck's Mystery and Commandment
18: Martin Buber's Religious Existentialism
19: Jewish Law—Martin Buber vs. Franz Rosenzweig
20: Mordecai Kaplan and American Judaism
21: Abraham Heschel—Mystic and Social Activist
22: Theological Responses to the Nazi Holocaust
23: Feminist Jewish Theology
24: Current Trends in Jewish Thought
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Taught by

David B. Ruderman

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