Teaching Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education

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NYU Press, 1 juin 1995 - 375 pages
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Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the study of Jewish civilization throughout the world. Globally, over 1,300 universities and colleges offer courses on some aspect of Jewish civilization. Some universities in areas which had little contact with Jewish heritage, such as the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, and Africa, are increasingly introducing such studies into their course offerings.

This volume addresses the challenge of developing courses of study about Jewish civilizations appropriate for different peoples in many parts of the world at the same time. The more than 60 selections cover a broad range of conceptual, historical, thematic, pedagogic, and administrative areas and address the basic issues which confront university Jewish civilization studies. Such concerns as the incorporation of Jewish studies into general disciplines, the re-introduction of Jewish civilization studies into non- Western organizational university structures, and the place of Israeli universities in serving an ever-increasing number of universities abroad are addressed as the contributors elucidate the objectives, progress, achievements, and still unfulfilled goals of these programs. Of special utility is a world register of Jewish studies programs which provides a comprehensive global profile of institutions engaged in teaching Jewish history and civilization.

 

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Page 116 - For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many people : and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks : nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 136 - ... for reasons of convention. Rather, Jewish life can be conceived as revolving around a core of clearly political concerns, eg, the life of the community or the provision of certain public services, surrounded by concentric circles of concern that move out toward the private realm and into a grey area of matters that can be considered "public" for some purposes, and "private" for others. The delineation of Jewish political studies raises certain additional problems by virtue of its Jewish aspect....
Page 135 - Jewish political studies" as a field, and what are its concerns? Politics itself is concerned with both power and justice, with who gets what, when, and how (in the words of Harold Lasswell) and the search for the good political order. Jews share these concerns when they function as a corporate body as well as in their individual capacities. Political, or public concerns are those involving the community as a whole, the collective interests of people living in the community, activities in...
Page 264 - American Baptist Seminary of the West Church Divinity School of the Pacific Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology Franciscan School of Theology Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary Pacific School of Religion San Francisco Theological Seminary Starr King School for the Ministry...
Page 135 - Politics itself is concerned with both power and justice, with who gets what, when, and how (in the words of Harold Lasswell) and the search for the good political order. Jews share these concerns when they function as a corporate body as well as in their individual capacities. Political, or public concerns are those involving the community as a whole, the collective interests of people living in the community, activities in society that have a communal bent or character, and the concerns of individuals...
Page 136 - ... separated with equal clarity, public affairs soon resolves itself into questions of the immediately or essentially political. Within the framework of Jewish civilization, however, the distinctions between public and private, political and religious, are substantially blurred. Moreover, the lack of clearly political institutions to help set the formal boundaries of public affairs (at least in the diaspora) requires examination of Jewish social and communal life with a more careful and penetrating...
Page 197 - ... apologetic, historical, or demographic reasons. That is to say, the interest in Judaism for the imagination of religion cannot be merely because it is "there," because it has played some role in our collective invention of western civilization, or because some students of religion happen to be Jews. Rather, it is because of the peculiar position of Judaism within the larger framework of the imagining of western religion: close, yet distant; similar, yet strange; "occidental," yet "oriental";...
Page 136 - ... raises certain additional problems by virtue of its Jewish aspect. In the western world, where the separation between public and private starts from firmly established premises and the political and the religious aspects of life are separated with equal clarity, public affairs soon resolves itself into questions of the immediately or essentially political. Within the framework of Jewish civilization, however, the distinctions between public and private, political and religious, are substantially...
Page 136 - Jewish studies. In part, this is simply a matter of recognizing and analyzing the political dimension always present in a tradition devoted to the creation of the good commonwealth here on earth. For, indeed, there is a neglected but extremely significant Jewish contribution to world political ideas and institutions that deserves to be explored and perhaps further developed for our own and future times. The role of Jewish political ideas in the formation of the United States is a case in point. Beyond...
Page 136 - ... as a whole, the collective interests of people living in the community, activities in society that have a communal bent or character, and the concerns of individuals insofar as they relate to community life and interests. While acknowledgement of some distinction between public and private concerns is crucial, it is equally clear that no sharp division between the two spheres can ever be drawn, even for reasons of convention. Rather, Jewish life can be conceived as revolving around a core of...

À propos de l'auteur (1995)

Moshe Davis is Chairman, Governing Council, The International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and Founding Head, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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