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Summary: 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 lectures address the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought in the past 500 years, identifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 296 JEWRuderman, David B.
Summary: Twenty-four 30 minute lectures given by Professsor David B. Ruderman, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania, present an overview of Jewish culture and society, focusing on the encounter between rabbinic civilization and the social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of medieval Islam and Christendom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909.0492 BET2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909.0492 BET PART 1
Call number: DVD 909.0492 BET PART 2