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• Moshe Aberbach: a biographical Foreword David Aberbach Introduction: The Origins of Jewish Education in the Ancient World.
• Part 1: Essays
• 1. Aaron, Jeroboam, and the Golden Calves
• 2. Joseph and his Brothers and the History of the Twelve Tribes
• 3. Anti-Hellenism in the Book of Daniel
• 4. Imperial Greek Freedmen and the Fall of the Jewish State, 70 CE
• 5. Herod and Josephus: Patriots or Traitors?
• 6. Opposition to the Prophets in the Talmud
• 7. Pharaoh and Roman Egypt in Rabbinic Literature
• 8. King Hezekiah and Judah Hanasi: Messianic Links
• 9. The Rabbis, Education and the Obliteration of Class
• 10. Charismatic and Anti-Charismatic Elements in Judaism
• 11. Saadia Gaon: the Struggle for Jewish Unity
• 12. Maimonides: Myth and Reality
• 13. Ancient Roots of European Anti-Semitism and Jewish Patriotism
• 14. Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch
• 15. On Being a Jewish Historian
• 16. The Roots of Religious anti-Zionism
• 17. Halakhah and the Modern World: the Question of Smoking
• 18. Demented Messianists and Modern Secularists
• Part 2: Viennese Memoir, 1924-38
• 1. A Viennese upbringing
• 2. Father
• 3. Mother
• 4. Family history and legend
• 5. My parents and me
• 6. Hebrew teaching and holidays
• 7. Relatives and friends
• 8. School
• 9. The Chajesrealgymnasium (1934-1938)
• 10. My schoolmates
• 11. Under Nazi rule (March-December 1938)
• 12. Kindertransport.
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Moshe Aberbach (1924-2007) was a leading educator and scholar in Jewish studies, specialising in the field of Jewish education in the talmudic period. This book draws on a representative selection of his writings over a fifty year period, and includes essays on Saadia Gaon and Maimonides, coverage of biblical and talmudic studies, and discussions of the roots of religious anti-Zionism and of the Lubavitch messianic movement in the context of similar movements in Jewish history. Focusing on the history of Jewish education and linking the Roman destruction of the Jewish state in 70 CE with Jewish survival after the Holocaust, and how survival of both depended on a strong system of education and the moral example set by teachers, the book explores the vital importance of education to Jewish survival from biblical times to the present. The book includes an autobiographical memoir of Moshe Aberbach's childhood in Vienna, as well as a biographical Foreword by his son, David. It will be of great interest to Bible scholars and students of Jewish Studies, History, the Holocaust and Jewish social psychology.
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The purpose of this work is to provide a scholarly but also readable account of the economic activities of the Jews - as well as their attitudes to labour in general during the Biblical and Talmudic periods. As far as possible, the entire source material, scattered as it is in the Bible, the Apocrypha, the Talmud and Midrash, has been utilised to present a comprehensive picture of this important but relatively neglected subject. The book comprises chapters in the occupational structure of the Talmudic rabbis and their views on physical labour as well as descriptions of Jewish commercial and industrial activities and vocational training in ancient times.
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