Word: jerusalems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intense, bushy-haired young professor could frequency be seen ambling through the crowded streets of Jerusalem two years ago, carrying on extended conversations with rabbis and refugees, artists and intellectuals. After searching out the colorful inhabitants of Israel's metropolis, Jacob Taubes felt he had found "deeper wisdom among semi-literates than among many college graduates...
...same year, Taubes became a close friend of Paul Tillich, with whom he studied, and of Yale's famed philosopher, Paul Weiss Martin Buber secured him a position as Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the following year. Taubes found that his course on Hegel and Marx was violently controversial in Jerusalem, for a group of remarkably well trained Marxist debaters was in the student body, and the left-wing press soon began to attack him. But Taubes had to admit that the Communists in Israel have a uniquely trained cabal...
Educated by his well-to-do family in art and philosophy, he wandered through Europe after World War I, sopping up psychoanalysis in Vienna, writing movie scripts in Berlin, working as a special correspondent for the famed Frankfurter Zeitung. He visited Jerusalem, talked with the great Zionist pioneer, Chaim Weizmann. At last he began to find what he was looking for-but it was among the Arabs, not his fellow Jews, that he found it. In 1926 he became a Moslem...
...want a 9 o'clock class the morning after a weekend, but those who dare have their pick of sparsely filled classrooms and some excellent courses to boot. Dr. Taubes, a visiting professor from Hebrew University in Jerusalem who seems to be giving almost every other course in the catalog this year, will lecture in Humanities 134, "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy." While this hour could be profitably spent by those concerned with academic freedom or Father Feency, care should still be exercised in picking a course given by an unfamiliar professor...
...GOETHALS Jerusalem...