
David B. Ruderman
Author of Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza
About the Author
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key and Connecting the Covenants.
Series
Works by David B. Ruderman
Kabbalah, Magic and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (1988) 21 copies
Essential Papers on Jewish Culture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Essential Papers on Jewish Studies) (1992) 16 copies
The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham Ben Mordecai Farissol (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) (1981) 14 copies
Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (2007) 6 copies
Jewish Intellectual History: 16th T0 20th Century Course Guidebook, Philosophy & Intellectual History (The Great Courses) (2002) 4 copies
Converts of Conviction: Faith and Scepticism in Nineteenth Century European Jewish Society (Studies and Texts in Scepticism Book 1) (2017) 4 copies
Three Zionist Visions 1 copy
The Science of Judaism 1 copy
Feminist Jewish Theology 1 copy
On Studying Jewish History 1 copy
The Crusades and the Jews 1 copy
Baghdad and the Gaonic Age 1 copy
Saadia Gaon and His World 1 copy
The Sephardim of Amsterdam 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1944-05-29
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Jerusalem Institute (1961-1962)
City College of New York (BA|1966)
Teacher's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1967)
Columbia University (MA|1968)
Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (BHL, MHL, rabinnic degree, 1967-1971)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD|1975) - Occupations
- professor
- Organizations
- American Academy for Jewish Research
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, USA
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Reviews
Ruderman fjallar um rúmlega 10. alda sögu menningar gyðinga á umbrotatímum fram á árnútímann. Sem gefur að skilja er þetta ákaflega sundurleit saga því hann fylgir þjóðflutningunum um veldi Múhameðstrúarmanna, Íberíuskaga og um alla Evrópu. Athyglivert er að sjá hvernig viðhorf múslima var öðruvísi en kristinna og ekki síst hvernig viðhorfin breytast í aldanna rás. Ruderman gefur engar skýringar á þessum atriðum en dregur fram helstu áhrifavaldanna. show more Það er líka kostur að hann fjallar örlítið um kynjasögu gyðinga á þessum tímum en lætur þess þó getið að hún sé of lítið rannsökuð til að hægt sé að skoða hana fullnægjandi. show less
University of Pennsylvania professor David Ruderman's excellent lecture series focuses on Jewish Identity in the modern era by examining the ideas and influence of a small group of critical thinkers. The course begins with the exiles of the Inquisition in the Venetian ghettos in 1516 and then moves to Amsterdam and Baruch Spinoza. In many cases, Ruderman examines subsequent thinkers' work as both a response to Spinoza and the conditions of the era in which they reside. His analysis of the show more origins and thinking of the major divisions of contemporary Judaism: Modern or neo- Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist is fascinating. Lectures on Martin Buber, Theological responses to the Holocaust, and Jewish Feminist theory also stood out. Ruderman has an impressive command of his subject and is a highly skilled lecturer. I highly recommend this series. show less
12 one hour lectures with written outline on audio tape
12 one hour lectures with written outline on audio tape
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Statistics
- Works
- 68
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 382
- Popularity
- #63,244
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 43
- Languages
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