Friends,
We are pleased to announce that episode 1 of Tikvah’s newest online course—Creativity and Confrontation: The History of Medieval Jewry taught by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter—is now available!
The Middle Ages are a period of Jewish history often overlooked today. When we reflect on Jewish history, many of us think of the trials of David, the debates of the rabbis, the disaster of the Holocaust, and the triumph of Zionism. But what about everything in between ancient and modern times? We typically remember that Jews were persecuted, and little else.
Persecuted they were, but the medieval period contained so much more. And that is what Rabbi Schacter shows in this new online course.
It was in medieval times that Jewish faith confronted Aristotelian reason. It was in medieval times that the figures who dominate Jewish commentary and philosophy—Maimonides, Rashi, Nahmanides, Yehuda Halevi—lived. It was in medieval times that Jewish communal institutions first came into being.
Medieval Jewish history is fascinating and vast. And in this course, you have the chance to learn about it with one of the master Jewish historians of our age.
