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Lot #    21098
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 12:28:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Examinations in Hebrew and Religious Knowledge
Author    Jews' College, London
City    London
Publisher    Steler & Young
Publication Date    1935
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    Only edition. 11 pp., 210:140 mm. light age staining, as issued.
          
Paragraph 1    A booklet describing the required examinations for "persons intending to become teachers of Hebrew and religion."
          
Detailed
Description		    The examinations are held annually in the month of January, with the required preparatory exam also given in the month of July. Applicants are to have knowledge of the Bible and prayerbook as well as of Hebrew grammar and Jewish history. Additionally information on Jewish ritual laws and customs is also demanded.

The intermediate exam consists of additional questions in areas such as Rashi's commentary, sections of the Shulhan Arukh and the Mishnah as well as a broader knowledge of Biblical passages, prayers and Jewish history and geography.

The final examination follows the same subject areas, but at a greater depth. In addition, other periods of Jewish history have to be covered as well,

A suggested bibliography is given, beginning on page 8.

          
Paragraph 2    Jews' College, now known as the London School of Jewish Studies, was opened in Finsbury Square, London as a rabbinical seminary in 1855 with the support of the then Chief Rabbi Nathan Adler and of Sir Moses Montefiore, who had had the idea for such a venture as early as 1841.The college quickly established itself as a place where high quality rabbinical training was available and its alumni and staff often became prominent in Anglo-Jewry. Many leading figures in British Jewry have been associated with the College, including Michael Friedländer, Principal from 1865 to 1907; Isidore Epstein, Principal 1948–1961; Louis Jacobs, Moral Tutor 1959–1961; and in recent years Jonathan Sacks, Principal 1984–1990.In 1881, the College moved to larger premises in Tavistock Square, close to University College, where it was envisaged that Jews’ College students would be able to combine their religious studies and university sudies to degree level. As early as 1904, the University of London granted an Honours degree in Hebrew and Aramaic, all of the candidates being from Jews’ College.In 1932, with the building of Woburn House, a centre for Anglo-Jewry, still in Tavistock Square, Jew's College moved again. During the Second World war, despite the bombing of London, the College kept its doors open, and continued to look forward. Apart from the rabbinical studies and degree course, Chazzanut courses and teacher training programmes were now offered.
          
Reference
Description		    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_School_of_Jewish_Studies
        
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Language:    English
  
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