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

For More Information and Registration

Call (248) 4761532

Internet - vvvvw.shj.org

International Institute for
Secular Humanistic Judaism

a recipient of the

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Max M. Fisher Jewish Community Foundation.

