Friends,
Medieval Jewish history is often overlooked today. When we think of Jewish history, we think of the trials of David, the debates of the rabbis, the disaster of the Holocaust, and the triumph of Zionism. But what about everything in between ancient and modern times? We typically remember that Jews were persecuted, and little else. Persecuted they were, but the medieval period of Jewish history is so much more. As Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter will show in this new online course, Creativity and Confrontation: The History of Medieval Jewry, it was a dramatic, significant, and formative time for the Jews.
It was in medieval times that Jewish faith confronted Aristotelian reason. It was in medieval times that the figures who dominate Jewish study and philosophy lived, including Maimonides, Rashi, Nahmanides, and Yehuda Halevi. It was in medieval times that Jewish communal institutions first came into being; that the siddur was written; that the practices that govern the lives of Jews today were flushed out in full.
Medieval Jewish history is fascinating and vast. And in this course, you have the chance to learn about it with the one of the master Jewish historians of our age. |
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We're excited to release the first lecture of this course on Sunday, November 24. When you pre-enroll, you'll receive it in your inbox as soon as it's live, and you'll receive new lectures on a weekly basis thereafter. As each lecture is released, you'll be able to watch or listen to any of them whenever you'd like and at your own pace.
In Rabbi Schacter's view, medieval Jewish history is perhaps the most important period for us to understand if we want to understand and appreciate the life of the Jewish people today. I invite you to find out why by pre-enrolling in this new course now. All the best, John Minster Director of Digital Marketing, Tikvah Ideas |
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Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and senior scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University. He was previously dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston, and for 19 years, rabbi of The Jewish Center in Manhattan. Rabbi Schacter is the author and editor of numerous scholarly works, and the instructor of two other Tikvah courses, on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and the Jewish meaning of memory. |
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