Gruss Workshop: Thinking Legally vs. Thinking Historically
This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars of law, history, and religious studies to assess the relationship between legal and historical modes of thought. This idea emerges out of the deep divisions regarding the relative role of historical/contextual vs. doctrinal reasoning in the study of the Jewish law. However, by approaching the issue as a matter of general legal theory, we hope to draw on the parallel experiences of other thought traditions to address the following question: To what extent are lawyers justified in assuming that thousands of individualized acts separated by time, space and social context, form a legal system that transcends any individual action?
Co-sponsored by Penn Law School and the Jewish Studies Program

"Survivors Talmud" [Babylonian Talmud]. Munich ; Heidelberg : [printed by the the Rabbinical Council of Germany, U.S. Army, and the Joint Distribution Committee], 1948. v.1 Berakhot. Frontispiece. At the bottom of the title page is a depiction of a Nazi slave labor camp flanked by barbed wire; above are the palm trees and the landscape of the Holy Land. The legend reads: "From bondage to freedom; from darkness to a great light."
Jewish Studies @ PENN
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Fall/Winter 2021
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