The Adult Education committee will sponsor the continuation of the DVD course, "Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza" beginning 7:30 pm, Tuesday, March 2, 2009.  This recorded set of TV lectures presented by Dr. David B. Ruderman, Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania, is an overview of Jewish culture and society from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity until the dawn of modernity in the 17th century.

Although some references will be made to earlier lectures viewed in the Fall session, each lecture stands on its' own merit.  This semester includes the following subjects:

  Patterns of Jewish Culture - Rabbinic Learning; Kabbalah; German pietism
  The Medieval Jewish-Christian Debate
  Understanding Medieval Anti-Semitism
  Notes on the Medieval Jewish Family
  The Decline and Expulsion of Spanish Jewry
  Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Period
  Kabbalah and Society in 16th-century Safed
  Shabbetai Zevi - The Mystical Messiah
  The Rise of Eastern European Jewry
  The Sephardim of Amsterdam

The Tuesday evening class sessions will be one hour long and are tentatively scheduled for the following evenings:
March 2,
March 9,
March 16,
March 23,
April 6,
April 13

Light refreshments will be served.  For more information and to pre-register, please contact Sally Harrison, 281-326-1608.

Visit http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=4652 for an indepth course synopsis.