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Office Hours:
Mondays and Wednesdays: 11:00 - 12:00 in RAJ 202 Tuesdays: 3 - 4 in Brainerd Commons Office in Stewart 217
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Robert Schine
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Curt C. and Else Silberman Professor in Jewish Studies
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Robert A. Jones '59 House 202
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Phone: 802.443.5151
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Fax: 802-443-2050
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Email: schine@middlebury.edu
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Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
A.B., Kenyon College;
M.A., Universitaet Freiburg;
Ph.D., Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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My courses have three foci: the history of Jewish thought, particularly the modern period, including the Zionist movement; theories of religion, and classical Hebrew.
In my research I work on German-Jewish thought and culture, the philosophy of Hermann Cohen and its legacy, including its continuing significance in debates on Jewish nationalism. In a nod to local history, I recently published a documentary analysis of the oldest Minutes Book of a Vermont Jewish community. The Minutes Book is, at the same time, a window on the linguistics of the Western Yiddish imported by German Jews to rural Vermont in the 19th century.