TY  - JOUR
A1  - Solomon, Esther
T1  - Rabbi Dessler’s View of Secular Studies and Wissenschaft des Judentums
JF  - PaRDES : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V.
N2  - Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892–1953) is often portrayed as antagonistic to secular studies. However, his writings show more of an intellectual hierarchy that places Torah wisdom at the top and all other wisdom a distant second. R. Dessler expended great effort promoting Torah scholarship while generally refraining from disparaging secular studies. Looking at the writings of his predecessors in the Mussar (moralist) movement, one can see that there was no disapproval of worldly education there, either: In fact, R. Dessler and his predecessors were well-educated in many secular disciplines. This essay looks to places R. Dessler’s attitude toward Wissenschaft des Judentums within the context of his life’s mission to advance talmudic study and his consequent unwillingness to countenance anything that detracted from furthering the learning of Torah. I argue that, whereas his extreme opposition to Wissenschaft was the result of his aversion to its aims, methods and conclusions, his nuanced relationship to Orthodox Wissenschaft was the result of the hierarchy through which he viewed secular as opposed to talmudic study.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-417810
SP  - 103
EP  - 124
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thulin, Mirjam
A1  - Krah, Markus
A1  - Meyer, Michael A.
A1  - Schorsch, Ismar
A1  - Brodt, Eliezer
A1  - Sariel, Eliezer
A1  - Yedidya, Asaf
A1  - Esther, Solomon
A1  - Kessler, Samuel J.
A1  - Bratkin, Dimitri
A1  - Sax, Benjamin E.
A1  - Stair, Rose
A1  - Ariel, Yaakov S.
A1  - Weidner, Daniel
A1  - Ebert, Sophia
A1  - Martini, Annett
A1  - Fischer, Bernd
A1  - Thüne, Eva-Maria
A1  - Bock, Dennis
A1  - Engelmann, Jonas
A1  - Aust, Cornelia
A1  - Walter, Nancy
ED  - Krah, Markus
ED  - Thulin, Mirjam
ED  - Pick, Bianca
T1  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Cultures of Wissenschaft des Judentums at 200
T2  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V.
N2  - PaRDeS, the journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies, aims at exploring the fruitful and multifarious cultures of Judaism as well as their relations to their environment within diverse areas of research. In addition, the journal promotes Jewish Studies within academic discourse and reflects on its historic and social responsibilities.
N2  - PaRDeS, die Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V., erforscht die fruchtbare kulturelle Vielfalt des Judentums sowie ihre Berührungspunkte zur nichtjüdischen Umwelt in unterschiedlichen Bereichen. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung.
T3  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 24 
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414943
SN  - 978-3-86956-440-1
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 24
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -