Course no. 4652.

"Philosophy & Intellectual History"--Container cover.

DVD, region 1.

Professor David B. Ruderman, lecturer.

Accompanying guide laid in disc containers includes lecture notes and outlines, timelines, and glossaries.

Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each part consists of 2 videodiscs an each videodisc consists of six lectures. Each course guidebook covers the 12 lectures contained in 2 videodisca in one part.

Part 1. lecture 1. On studying Jewish history -- lecture 2. The rabbinic legacy prior to Islam -- lecture 3. The beginnings of Jewish life under Islam -- lecture 4. Baghdad and the Gaonic age -- lecture 5. Saadia Gaon and his world -- lecture 6. The philosophy of Saadia Gaon -- lecture 7. The rise of the Spanish Jewish community -- lecture 8. Judah ha-Levi's cultural critique -- lecture 9. Moses Maimonides's philosophy of Judaism -- lecture 10. Jewish beginnings in Christian Europe -- lecture 11. The church and the Jews prior to 1096 -- lecture 12. The crusades and the Jews.

Part 2. lecture 13. Patterns of Jewish culture: rabbinic learning -- lecture 14. Patterns of Jewish culture: Kabbalah -- lecture 15. Patterns of Jewish culture: German Pietism -- lecture 16. The medieval Jewish-Christian debate -- lecture 17. Understanding medieval anti-Semitism -- lecture 18. Notes on the medieval Jewish family -- lecture 19. The decline and expulsion of Spanish Jewry -- lecture 20. Italian Jewry in the early modern period -- lecture 21. Kabbalah and society in 16th century Safed -- lecture 22. Shabbetai Zevi: the mystical messiah -- lecture 23. The rise of Eastern European Jewry -- lecture 24. The Sephardim of Amsterdam.

Twenty-four 30 minute lectures given by Professsor David B. Ruderman, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania, present an overview of Jewish culture and society, focusing on the encounter between rabbinic civilization and the social, economic, political, and intellectual environments of medieval Islam and Christendom.