The Frankfort Lehrhaus
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In the treatise Zeit ist’s [Franz] Rosenzweig outlined a detailed and imposing plan of an Academy for the Science of Judaism, the members of which would be both scholars and teachers. As scholars they would work on one of the several scientific projects undertaken by the Academy; a part of their time, however, they would devote to Jewish teaching…
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