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Professor Jacob Adler will be teaching Contemporary Jewish Thought during Summer Session I, May 28 to June 28, M-F 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The course will cover issues from the late 19th century to the present. Some topics:
- What is Judaism?
- Can women be rabbis?
- Changing interfaith relations
- The varieties of Zionism
And the following figures (among others):
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Franz Rosenzweig
- Martin Buber
- Michael Wyschogrod
For more information, contact professor Adler at 479-200-1397 or jadler@uark.edu.
Contacts
Jacob Adler, associate professor
Department of Philosophy
479-200-1397,
jadler@uark.edu
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