Did the Jewish people
begin with Abraham?
Did Moses write the Torah?
Is there more than one set
of Ten Commandments?
Were the prophets liberal
or reactionary?
Did the rabbis hate
the Maccabees?
Did orthodoxy have serious
competition in ancient times?
Did the Greeks make a
positive contribution to
Jewish culture?
How did the rabbis become
the religious establishment?
Who were the people
who created the Talmud?
What is the real connection
between Jews, trade
and money?
What is the key to
the success of the
Hasidic movement?
Were the Enlightenment
and emancipation
good for the Jews?
What is the nature of
modern antisemitism?
Has Zionism met the
expectations of its creators?
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RECLAIMING
JEWISH
HISTORY
October 23rd-26th, 1997
Pivnick Center for
Humanistic Judaism
Birmingham Temple
28611 West Twelve Mile Road
Farmington Hills, Michigan
The Jewish people is a remarkable people with a
remarkable history. But over the years history has
been mixed with legend, fact has been mixed with
fiction. Today modern scholarship is struggling to
separate the facts from the fiction and to present
to us, for the first time, what really happened - the
real history of the Jews.
Eleven distinguished scholars explore the way
Jewish people, in fact, responded to historical
circumstances confronting them. What they really
did - what really happened - is a fascinating story.
Yehuda Bauer
Hebrew University
Norman Cantor
New York University
Lois Dubin
Smith College
Ari Elon
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Yaakov Malkin
College of Pluralistic Judaism
Carol Meyers
Duke University
Eric Meyers
Duke University
Derek Penslar
Indiana University
William Propp
University of California-San Diego
Ada Rapoport-Albert
University College-London
Steven Zipperstein
Stanford University
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