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Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century

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Overview

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
  • By This Professor

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David B. Ruderman

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