Judaic
111ART — This article is arranged according to the following outline: Antiquity to 1800 INTRODUCTION: JEWISH ATTITUDE TO ART biblical period the sanctuary and first temple period second temple period after the fall of jerusalem relation to early christian …
112ART HISTORIANS AND ART CRITICS — The discipline of art history first made its appearance in Germany, in the middle of the 18th century, but it was more than a hundred years before the lowering of the barriers that had excluded Jews from academic careers enabled them to enter… …
113BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, the only secular institution of higher learning in the Diaspora that is both Jewish sponsored and non sectarian. Brandeis University was founded in 1948 and has continued to rank near the top of academic life in the United… …
114HILLEL — HILLEL, college campus organization. Jews have been attracted to college and university life since the Haskalah and emancipation opened the doors to higher secular learning. Nowhere has this been more widespread than in the United States where… …
115JEWISH CAMPING — JEWISH CAMPING, the collective term for the various forms in which the organized Jewish community and private Jewish entrepreneurs in North America have adapted the classic American summer organized camping format to meet the needs or desires of… …
116JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — (JTS). JTS is the primary educational and religious center of conservative judaism and a leading institution for the academic study of Judaism. With its main campus in New York City, JTS is currently comprised of a rabbinical school, a cantorial… …
117LIBRARIES — A library is a collection of information resources, in all formats, organized and made accessible for study. The word derives from the Latin liber ( book ). The origin of libraries, keeping of written records, dates at least to the third… …
118LOWN, PHILIP W. — LOWN, PHILIP W. (1890–1978), U.S. shoe manufacturer and philanthropist. Lown arrived in New York in 1907, later attending the University of Maine and obtaining a degree in chemical engineering (1918). Lown went into shoe manufacturing, eventually …
119REFORM JUDAISM — REFORM JUDAISM, first of the modern interpretations of Judaism to emerge in response to the changed political and cultural conditions brought about by the emancipation . The Reform movement was a bold historical response to the dramatic events of …
120ROSENBAUM, JONATHAN — (1947– ), U.S. scholar, administrator and rabbi; president of Gratz College from 1998. A graduate of the University of Michigan where he received his B.A. summa cum laude in 1968 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Rosenbaum then earned rabbinical …
