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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Torah with the Way of the Land: The Legacy of German Judaism
Description: A virtual event presentation by Professor Paul Franks
ABOUT THE EVENT:
What is the legacy of German Judaism, and what can it still offer us today? German Judaism began with Moses Mendelssohn’s controversial German translation of the Humash in 1783, and ended with the Nazi pogrom of November 1938. The best known slogan of the Torah-true wing of German Judaism is “Torah im derekh erets” (“Torah with the way of the land”). But this slogan is often misunderstood as nothing more than an educational philosophy that came in one flavor. In fact, it is an ideal of humanity articulated, in several competing...