Jewish intellectual history : 16th to 20th century / David B. Ruderman.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Ruderman, David B.

Contributor:

Teaching Company.

Series:

Great courses (Audiocassette)

The great courses

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Jews--History.

History.

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Instructional and educational works.

Lectures.

Speeches.

Physical Description:

12 audiocassettes (approximately 720 min.) : analog, Dolby processed ; 3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in. each + guide (2 v. ; 22 cm).

3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.

Place of Publication:

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2002]

System Details:

analog

magnetic

1 7/8 ips

quarter (4) track

stereo

Summary:

Professor Ruderman delivers twenty-four lectures exploring the problem of Jewish identity in the modern era. He identifies the challenges to Jewish intellectual thought from the 16th through the 20th centuries, and reveals the ways in which Jewish thinkers grappled with the meaning of God, Torah, and Israel.

Contents:

lecture 1. On studying Jewish history

lecture 2. Defining modern Jewish history and thought

lecture 3. Cultural transformation in the Italian ghetto

lecture 4. Seventeenth-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

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 & social activist

lecture 22. Theological responses to the Nazi Holocaust

lecture 23. Feminist Jewish theology

lecture 24. Current trends in Jewish thought.

Notes:

In two containers (23 cm.); guidebooks folded into outside sleeves.

ISBN:

1565855205 :

OCLC:

51498604

Publisher Number:

4647 Teaching Company

4645--4646 Teaching Company