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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Joshua Shanes - The (re)birth of Jewish Denominations in 19th-century Europe
Description: Professor Joshua Shanes of the College of Charleston (cofc.edu/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Searching for Authenticity: The (re)birth of Jewish Denominations in 19th-century Europe" before an audience at Congregation Or Tzion (www.congregationortzion.org) in Scottsdale, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Since the canonization of the Talmud, Jews lived in autonomous communities that clearly defined the meaning and obligations of Jewishness. The rise of the modern centralized state in the nineteenth century, and the impact of Enlightenment and secularization, radically transformed this reality. The dismantling of the autonomous community and the integration of Jews into European states...