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The Jewish Society in Modern Era - Between Tradition and Modernity

Date: Monday, February 15, 2010

Febr 15-25
Mordechai Zalkin

Prof. Mordechai (Motti) Zalkin was born in Jerusalem and received his university training at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is an associate professor of modern Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. His special fields of interest are the social and economic history of the Jews in Eastern Europe, mainly in Lithuania, and the history of Jewish education in Eastern Europe. Among his publications are A New Dawn: The Jewish Enlightenment in the Russian Empire – Social Aspects (2000); From the Hidden Treasures of Jewish Vilna: Historical Documents From the Annals of Lithuanian Jewry (2001); The City of Vilna (Ed.)(2002); From Heder to School: Modernization Processes in Nineteenth Century East European Jewish Education (2008).

Course Description
The course will concentrate on the main religious, educational, social and economic processes which had a crucial impact on the Jewish collective consciousness and way of life from the mid 18th century to the Holocaust.

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