Jewish intellectual history : 16th to 20th century /
God, Torah, and Israel. These three concepts (i.e., personal belief, the meaning of Jewish ritual acts, and the purpose of continued Jewish existence) have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history. But the last four centuries presented Jewish thinkers with difficult challenges. These lect...
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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co.,
[2002]
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| Series: | Great courses (Compact disc)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. lecture 1. On studying Jewish history
- lecture 2. Defining modern Jewish history and thought
- lecture 3. Cultural transformation in the Italian ghetto
- lecture 4. 17th-century Marranism & Messianism
- lecture 5. The challenge of Baruch Spinoza
- lecture 6. Moses Mendelssohn and his generation
- lecture 7. The science of Judaism
- lecture 8. Heinrich Graetz : Jewish historian
- lecture 9. Abraham Geiger : the shaping of Reform Judaism
- lecture 10. The Neo-Orthodoxy of Samson Raphael Hirsch
- lecture 11. Zecharias Frankel and Conservative Judaism
- lecture 12. Samuel David Luzzatto : Judaism & Atticism.
- pt. II. lecture 13. Zionism's answer to the Jewish problem
- lecture 14. Three Zionist visions
- lecture 15. The Jewish adventure with Socialism
- lecture 16. Hermann Cohen's Religion of Reason
- lecture 17. Leo Baeck's mystery and commandment
- lecture 18. Martin Buber's religious existentialism
- lecture 19. Jewish law : Martin Buber vs. Franz Rosenzweig
- lecture 20. Mordecai Kaplan and American Judaism
- lecture 21. Abraham Heschel : mystic and social activist
- lecture 22. Theological responses to the Nazi Holocaust
- lecture 23. Feminist Jewish theology
- lecture 24. Current trends in Jewish thought.