Religious Studies 469.06: Judaism in the Modern Age:
Index of Class Notes
Research Topics and Selected Bibliography
Introduction and Background
Passage from Moses Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem"
The French Assembly of Jewish Notables: Answers to Questions from Napoleon
Passage from Spinoza's "Theologico-Political Treatise"
The Pittsburg Platform (1885)
The Columbus Platform (1937)
Zecharias Frankel: On Changes in Judaism
"Varieties of Orthodox Judaism" Image Map site
The Opposition to Hasidism:
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
American "Centrist" Orthodoxy
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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