Observe the time-honored intellectual tradition through which Judaism analyzes, rethinks, and reformulates itself.
Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
David B. Ruderman
