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Classical Knowledge, Power, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Rabbinic Education

Classical Knowledge, Power, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Rabbinic Education

Tell me, o Muse, of the man … (Homer)

Francis Bacons belief that knowledge is power is one of the great epistemic mottos of all time. In early nineteenth-century Jewish Amsterdam, where civic emancipation had overturned the old corporate hierarchies, the rabbinic elite soon came to experience its merciless truth…. Continue reading

Histories of Knowledge around the Web

Ten links

  1. Teaching Soviet Children the Language of Science and Technology by Laura Todd at The Language of ‘Authoritarian’ Regimes, June 28, 2017
  2. What We Can Learn from Fake News by Paul J. Croce at the History News Network, July 23, 2017
  3. How African American Activists are Influencing Latinos by Aaron Fountain at Black Perspectives, July 25, 2017

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