Name/Title
Between cross and crescent Jewish civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza. David B. Ruderman.Description
Part 1. lecture 1. On studying Jewish history -- lecture 2. The rabbinic legacy prior to Islam -- lecture 3. The beginnings of Jewish life under Islam -- lecture 4. Baghdad and the Gaonic age -- lecture 5. Saadia Gaon and his world -- lecture 6. The philosophy of Saadia Gaon -- lecture 7. The rise of the Spanish Jewish community -- lecture 8. Judah ha-Levi's cultural critique -- lecture 9. Moses Maimonides's philosophy of Judaism -- lecture 10. Jewish beginnings in Christian Europe -- lecture 11. The church and the Jews prior to 1096 -- lecture 12. The crusades and the Jews.^^Part 2. lecture 13. Patterns of Jewish culture: rabbinic learning -- lecture 14. Patterns of Jewish culture: Kabbalah -- lecture 15. Patterns of Jewish culture: German Pietism -- lecture 16. The medieval Jewish-Christian debate -- lecture 17. Understanding medieval anti-Semitism -- lecture 18. Notes on the medieval Jewish family -- lecture 19. The decline and expulsion of Spanish Jewry -- lecture 20. Italian Jewry in the early modern period -- lecture 21. Kabbalah and society in 16th century Safed -- lecture 22. Shabbetai Zevi: the mystical messiah -- lecture 23. The rise of Eastern European Jewry -- lecture 24. The Sephardim of Amsterdam.
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) :digital ;4 3/4 in. +course guidebook (22 cm.)Publication Details
Publication Type
VIDEOAuthor
Ruderman, David B.Date Published
2005Publication Subjects
Jews--Civilization.
Jews--History.
Judaism--History.Call No.
Video BetweenISBN
1598031228, 9781598031225