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Summer Seminars

Undergraduate Seminar: Jewish Thought and Enduring Human Questions

August 1 to August 11, 2010

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The Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought at Princeton University is proud to sponsor an annual summer program for undergraduates in August 2010. Students from universities in North America, Israel and elsewhere around the world will convene in Princeton to study Jewish texts, Jewish thought, and Jewish perspectives on the great questions of human life. Leora Batnitzky, Director of the Tikvah Project at Princeton will be joined by Allan Arkush (State University of New York) and Alan Mittleman (Jewish Theological Seminary) as seminar leaders. Topics will include Creation and Redemption, Love and Death, Justice and Injustice, Law and Authority, and God and Politics. Students will read and discuss classic Jewish and Western texts, hear lectures by renowned professors, and have opportunities for advising sessions with visiting faculty.

Housing and Kosher meals will be provided during the seminar and all students will receive a $1,000 stipend. Travel scholarships are also available.

The faculty for the 2010 seminar will include:

Allan Arkush, State University of New York

Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University

Michael Fishbane, University of Chicago

Moshe Halbertal, Hebrew University

Leon Kass, University of Chicago

Eric Lawee, York University

Alan Mittleman, Jewish Theological Seminary

Jon Levenson, Harvard University

Michael Morgan, Indiana University

David Novak, University of Toronto