Moshe Aberbach

Jewish Education and History (eBook, ePUB)

Continuity, crisis and change
Übersetzer: Aberbach, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Education is at the centre of Jewish life and this book charts that development from the earliest periods through to the present. With a special emphasis on the key Talmudic period the author has carefully scrutinised both Jewish texts as well as the Greco-Roman sources to provide a comprehensive history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134009558
• Artikelnr.: 42641953

Autorenporträt

Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was Emeritus Professor of Jewish History and Literature, Baltimore Hebrew University. Born in Vienna, he came to England in 1938 in a Kindertransport. He studied Ancient History and Hebrew at Leeds University and received his Ph.D. (1959) from London University for a study of Jewish education in the time of the Talmud, later published in Hebrew. Among his other publications are books on Targum, Jewish labor in the talmudic period, and (with his son, David) the Roman-Jewish wars.

David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, McGill University, Montreal. He has published books on the Hebrew writers Mendele Mocher Sefarim, Bialik and Agnon; and his most recent book is Jewish Cultural Nationalism (Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Moshe Aberbach: A Biographical Foreword David Aberbach Introduction: The
Origins of Jewish Education in the Ancient World Part 1: Essays 1. Aaron,
Jeroboam, and the Golden Calves 2. Joseph and his Brothers and the History
of the Twelve Tribes 3. Anti-Hellenism in the Book of Daniel 4. Imperial
Greek Freedmen and the Fall of the Jewish State, 70 CE 5. Herod and
Josephus: Patriots or Traitors? 6. Opposition to the Prophets in the Talmud
7. Pharaoh and Roman Egypt in Rabbinic Literature 8. King Hezekiah and
Judah Hanasi: Messianic Links 9. The Rabbis, Education and the Obliteration
of Class 10. Charismatic and Anti-Charismatic Elements in Judaism 11.
Saadia Gaon: the Struggle for Jewish Unity 12. Maimonides: Myth and Reality
13. Ancient Roots of European Anti-Semitism and Jewish Patriotism 14.
Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch 15. On Being a Jewish Historian
16. The Roots of Religious anti-Zionism 17. Halakhah and the Modern World:
the Question of Smoking 18. Demented Messianists and Modern Secularists
Part 2: Viennese Memoir, 1924-38 1. A Viennese upbringing 2. Father 3.
Mother 4. Family history and legend 5. My parents and me 6. Hebrew teaching
and holidays 7. Relatives and friends 8. School 9. The Chajesrealgymnasium
(1934-1938) 10. My schoolmates 11. Under Nazi rule (March-December 1938)
12. Kindertransport