Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies
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Videos of annual Samuel & Althea Stroum Lectures held by the University of Washington Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
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Item type: Item , Recent Archaeological Discoveries and Biblical Research, pt. 2(University of Washington Press, 1985) Dever, RobertDiscussion of how archaeology today can illuminate the world of the Bible, specifically the Israelite settlement in Canaan, and how it is possible to reconstruct the lost background of the Israelite cults.Item type: Item , Biblical Politics, pt. 3(2008) Walzer, MichaelWalzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. Because there are many biblical writers with differing views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics.Item type: Item , The Emerging Identities of Younger American Jews, pt. 1(2012) Cohen, Steven M.Item type: Item , The Emerging Identities of Younger American Jews, pt. 2(2012) Cohen, Steven MItem type: Item , “Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit”(University of Washington Press, 2012) Ruderman, David B.This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity.Item type: Item , “Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving One’s Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitz’s Sefer ha-Brit”(University of Washington Press, 2012) Ruderman, David B.This manuscript is a literary history of The Book of Covenant, an encyclopedic work of science, philosophy, and ethics written in the late-eighteenth century by Jewish philosopher and polymath Pinhas Hurwitz. Ruderman explores the reasons for the book's huge popularity--it has been republished in forty editions in the last century--as well as its lasting influence on Jewish and kabbalistic thought, and its important place in Jewish society's confrontation with modernity.Item type: Item , Encounters with the Past: Remembering the 'Bygone' in Israeli Culture, pt. 1(2009) Zerubavel, YaelItem type: Item , Speaking in Tongues: Translating Yiddish in the 20th Century, pt. 3(University of Washington Press, 2006) Norich, AnitaWriting in Tongues examines the complexities of translating Yiddish literature at a time when the Yiddish language is in decline. After the Holocaust, Soviet repression, and American assimilation, the survival of traditional Yiddish literature depends on translation, yet a few Yiddish classics have been translated repeatedly while many others have been ignored. Anita Norich traces historical and aesthetic shifts through versions of these canonical texts, and she argues that these works and their translations form an enlightening conversation about Jewish history and identity.Item type: Item , The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Creation, Revelation and Redemption, pt. 2(2006) Schiffman, Lawrence H.Item type: Item , Revivals and Awakenings in American Judaism, pt. 1(2011) Sarna, Jonathan D.Item type: Item , Revivals and Awakenings in American Judaism, pt. 2(2011) Sarna, Jonathan D.Item type: Item , Sephardic Jewries and the Holocaust, pt. 3(2005) Rodrigue, AronItem type: Item , Sephardic Jewries and the Holocaust, pt. 2(2005) Rodrigue, AronItem type: Item , Sephardic Jewries and the Holocaust, pt. 1(2005) Rodrigue, AronItem type: Item , Biblical Politics, pt. 2(2008) Walzer, MichaelWalzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. Because there are many biblical writers with differing views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Encounters with the Past: Remembering the 'Bygone' in Israeli Culture, pt. 2(2009) Zerubavel, YaelItem type: Item , Encounters with the Past: Remembering the 'Bygone' in Israeli Culture, pt. 3(2009) Zerubavel, YaelItem type: Item , The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Creation, Revelation and Redemption, pt. 3(2006) Schiffman, Lawrence H.Item type: Item , Biblical Politics, pt. 1(2008) Walzer, MichaelWalzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. Because there are many biblical writers with differing views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics.