Category Archives: Ruderman, David

David B. Ruderman is presently the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and was formally Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 1994-2014. Prior to coming to Pennsylvania, he taught at the University of Maryland [1974-83] and at Yale University [1983-94]. He is the author of many books and articles including The World of a Renaissance Jew, 1981; Kabbalah, Magic, and Science, 1988; A Valley of Vision, 1990; Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe, 1995, 2001, published also in Italian, Hebrew, and Russian; Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry’s Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, 2000; Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth Century England, 2007, and Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History, 2010. Three of these books, including the last, won national book awards in Jewish history. He has also edited or co-edited five other books and co-edited two popular textbooks. His most recent book A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinḥas Hurwitz and its Remarkable Legacy appeared in 2014. He is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. The Great Courses/Teaching Company has produced two of his Jewish history courses, each in 24 lectures. In 2001, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture honored him with its lifetime achievement award for his work in Jewish history. In 2014, his colleagues presented him with a festschrift entitled Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of David B. Ruderman, eds. Richard Cohen, Natalie Dohrmann, Adam Shear, and Elhanan Reiner (Pittsburgh, 2014).

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present- Three Zionist Thinkers–Their Differing Visions of a Jewish State and their Relevance for Contemporary Jews- Achad ha-Am Jacob Klatzkin, and Louis Brandeis

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CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present- Three Zionist Thinkers–Their Differing Visions of a Jewish State and their Relevance for Contemporary Jews- Achad ha-Am Jacob Klatzkin, and Louis Brandeis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSP: Ruderman – In Search of Saviours: The Messianic Impulse in Jewish History and its Consequences: The Messiah and the Modern Jewish Experience: Reform Judaism, Socialism, and Zionism

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CSP: Ruderman – In Search of Saviours: The Messianic Impulse in Jewish History and its Consequences: The Messiah and the Modern Jewish Experience: Reform Judaism, Socialism, and Zionism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present: Two competing visions of Jewish Life in the Modern World: Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch

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CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present: Two competing visions of Jewish Life in the Modern World: Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations: Missionaries, Meshumadim [Apostates], and Maskilim [Enlighteners]: The Revival of the Jewish Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century

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CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations: Missionaries, Meshumadim [Apostates], and Maskilim [Enlighteners]: The Revival of the Jewish Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance– From the Middle Ages to the Present: The Baal Shem Tov versus the Gaon Elijah of Vilna

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CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present: Two competing visions of Jewish Life in the Modern World: Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch