TEACHING LOWER DIVISION HEBREW LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT A TWO-YEAR PUBLIC COLLEGE

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One of the important goals of introductory college classes in Jewish Studies is to instill an appreciation of the Jewish civilization as one of Western man's primary responses to the needs of the human predicament. The time is long overdue to present an academically systematic study of the Jewish people and their traditions as important elements in world culture. The beginning student of Jewish Studies should be exposed to an understanding of the his tory, culture and literary traditions of the Jews as an influential force in the history of man, and to the dynamics of Judaism as an ethnic-universal religion. The student should also be taught that Jewish Studies is not just an attempt, however important, in discovering one 's identity, but he must be made aware of the laborious work involved in a critical, disciplined study of origins, sources, materials, and methodology. The author has pioneered the first two-year undergraduate Jewish Studies program in the nation at Los Angeles Valley

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