| Description |
12 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 132 pages ;19 cm). |
| Playing Time |
120000 |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Teaching Co.: 4652 (on container for pt. 1: PC4652-01; on container for pt. 2: PC4652-2). |
| Performer |
Professor David B. Ruderman, lecturer. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Accompanying guide includes lecture notes and outlines, timelines, and glossaries. |
| Summary |
Contains twenty-four lectures presenting an overview of Jewish culture and society from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity until the dawn of modernity in the eighteenth century. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. On studying Jewish history -- The rabbinic legacy prior to Islam -- The beginnings of Jewish life under Islam -- Baghdad and the Gaonic age -- Saadia Gaon and his world -- The philosophy of Saadia Gaon -- The rise of the Spanish Jewish community -- Judah ha-Levi's cultural critique -- Moses Maimonides's philosophy of Judaism -- Jewish beginnings in Christian Europe -- The church and the Jews prior to 1096 -- The crusades and the Jews. |
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pt. 2. Patterns of Jewish culture : rabbinic learning -- Patterns of Jewish culture : Kabbalah -- Patterns of Jewish culture : German pietism -- The medieval Jewish-Christian debate -- Understanding medieval anti-Semitism -- Notes on the medieval Jewish family -- The decline and expulsion of Spanish Jewry -- Italian Jewry in the early modern period -- Kabbalah and society in 16th century Safed -- Shabbetai Zevi : the mystical messiah -- The rise of Eastern European Jewry -- The Sephardim of Amsterdam. |
| Subject |
Jews -- Civilization.
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Jews -- History.
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Judaism -- History.
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Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
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Jews -- Civilization.
(OCoLC)fst00983166
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Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
159803121X |
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9781598031218 |
| Standard No. |
9781598031218 |
| Music No. |
4652 Teaching Co. |
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