International Workshop on Jewish Intellectual History at Freie Universität June 2 to 4, 2015
A workshop at Freie Universität Berlin from June 2 to June 4, 2015, will examine new approaches in the scholarly study of Jewish intellectual history. Experts from Israel, Germany, and other European countries as well as the United States and Canada will address to what extent the discipline of Jewish studies, which was founded in the 19th century as the "science of Judaism," approaches Jewish thought as a subject of scholarly investigation without including the specific Jewish intellectual tradition or epistemologies. The workshop title is "How Jews Know - Epistemologies of Jewish Knowledge." It will be held in English and is public. ...
