Religious Studies 469.06: Judaism in the Modern Age:

Index of Class Notes

• Research Topics and Selected Bibliography
  
• Introduction and Background
  
• The Emancipation
  
  • Passage from Moses Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem"
  • The French Assembly of Jewish Notables: Answers to Questions from Napoleon
• The Enlightenment
  
  • Passage from Spinoza's "Theologico-Political Treatise"
• Reform Judaism
  
  • The Pittsburg Platform (1885)
  • The Columbus Platform (1937)
• Conservative Judaism
  
  • Zecharias Frankel: On Changes in Judaism
• "Varieties of Orthodox Judaism" Image Map site
  
  • Hasidism
  • The Opposition to Hasidism: Misnagdim
  • Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Neo-Orthodoxy
    • S. R. Hirsch's essay: "Religion Allied to Progress"
  • Lithuanian Hasidism: Chabad Lubavitch
  • The Lithuanian Yeshivahs
  • Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Musar (Ethical) Movement
  • The Aguddat Israel Movement
  • Orthodox Zionism
  • American "Centrist" Orthodoxy
  • Orthodox Anti-Zionism: Naturei Karta
  • Rabbi Eliezer Shach and Lithuanian Anti-Zionism
  • Sepharadic Orthodox Movements
  • Messianic Orthodoxy: Gush Emunim
• Organizations Attached to Major American Jewish Movements
• Status of Women
  

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