‘Open Courses’ Events
Modern Hebrew Literature
Date: January 5, 2011
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Place: Paideia, Nybrogatan 21 Jan 5 - 13 Yael Shenker Investigating the main questions that were raised in the process of the emergence of modern Hebrew literature, both in the Diaspora and in Palestine before and after the establishment of Israel. more ... more »
The Jewish Society in Modern Era. Prof. Mordechai Zalkin, Ben-Gurion University
Date: January 24, 2011
Date: Monday, January 24, 2011 Place: Paideia, Nybrogatan 21 Jan 24 - Feb 3 Mordechai Zalkin A concentrated look at the main religious, educational, social and economic processes with crucial impact on the Jewish collective consciousness and way of life from the mid 18th century to the Holocaust. more ... more »
The Hasidic Path: Theory and Society. Dr. Avriel Bar-Levav, Open University of Israel
Date: February 28, 2011
Date: Monday, February 28, 2011 Place: Paideia, Nybrogatan 21 Febr 28 - March 10 Avriel Bar-Levav Presenting the central Hassidic ideas by reading excerpts from the vast Hasidic library, and focusing on the relationship between theory and social order in Hasidism. more ... more »
Choices in Modern Jewish Philosophy
Date: March 21, 2011
Date: Monday, March 21, 2011 Place: Paideia, Nybrogatan 21 March 21 - Apr 1 Rani Jaeger Examining the responses of Jewish thought to the challenges of the modern world. The thinkers, whose works we will read, committed themselves to find new ways of giving meaning and direction to modern Jewish life thus approaching the past from the perspective ... ... more »