Handouts

Here are all the handouts I've prepared for the Fall, 2006 class I taught at Temple Shaaray Tefila: "From the Enlightenment to Now." They are all in PDF format.

• Syllabus.
• First Class: Setting the Stage
  • A timeline.
  • Napoleon's Sanhedrin.
• Second Class: Reactins in Poland and Germany
  • Major thinkers: Israel Jacobson, Samuel Holdheim, Abraham Geiger, Zachariah Frankel, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Chatam Sofer, and Eliezer Ben Yehudah.
  • Excerpt of Hirsch's letter on "Reform."
  • Excerpt of 1904 Jewish Encyclopedia article on the Pale.
  • Kiddushin 38b --- adapted by Chatam Sofer to prove that adaptations of forbidden.
• Third Class: The Nightmare of the Holocaust
  • Outline with notes.
• Fourth Class: The Dream of Israel
  • Outline with notes.