Sandwiched between the rabbinic period and the Enlightenment, medieval Jewish history is often an afterthought. It shouldn’t be. 

In this online course, the distinguished historian Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter will bring you on a journey through the events, debates, and formative figures of the Jewish Middle Ages. 

In ten fascinating lectures, he’ll show you the drama and vibrancy of medieval Jewish history, and its significance to the story of the Jewish people. 

Many of the most important figures in Jewish history, including Maimonides, Rashi, Rabbeinu Gershom, Nahmanides, Yosef Karo, and so many more

The major intellectual and artistic advances in Jewish life, including philosophy, poetry, Kabbalah, and exegesis

How Jews reckoned with Christianity and Islam, and how those traditions reckoned with the Jews

Why understanding medieval Jewish history is so critical to understanding our time today

Enrollment is free, easy, and immediate. You can watch or listen to all of the lectures.

They will be released weekly, beginning November 24.

This course is generously sponsored by
Gary and Lee Rosenthal

Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought and senior scholar at the Center for the Jewish Future at Yeshiva University. From 2000 to 2005, he served as dean of the Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik Institute in Boston, and from 1981 to 2000 he served as rabbi of The Jewish Center in Manhattan. Rabbi Schacter holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages from Harvard University and received rabbinic ordination from Mesivta Torah Vodaath. He is the co-author of A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordecai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy, and American Judaism (with Jeffrey Gurock, 1996) and the editor of Jewish Tradition and the Nontraditional Jew (1992) and Judaism’s Encounter with other Cultures: Rejection or Integration? (1997). He has published numerous articles and reviews in Hebrew and English and is the founding editor of the Torah u-Madda Journal.

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