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Hallowed Secularism: The Blog Posts 2007-2021
Bruce Ledewitz
Collection of blog posts originally housed at www.hallowedsecularism.org from early 2007 until 2020 when it was moved to bruceledewitz.com.
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Nationalism and Class Struggle : Essays in Zionism and Socialism
Ber Borochov
"Borochov foresaw the struggle of oppressed peoples as a necessary and lasting factor in the formation of a new social order.
The economy of the Jewish nation is that of a nation in exile. Jews are centered around secondary occupations; they are excluded from the primary level of production: agriculture, mining, heavy industry. They work more often as merchants, in services, and as workers in the secondary industries (food, clothes, etc.) They desire to penetrate the higher classes. As individuals they may succeed in doing so but as a nation they cannot succeed. The assimilation of the Jews is not an accident but an attempt to be absorbed into the 'bourgeoisie'."-- Ber Borochov
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Outlines and Notes on Preliminary Law Examination of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
John N. English
Outlines and Notes on Preliminary Law Examination of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania with Abstracts of Subjects Specially Required by the State Board of Lw Examiners. IN TWO PARTS. PART I. Requirements of State Board of Examiners, and Outlines of work m English and American Literature; History; Latin; Mathematics, and Modern Geography; together with Abstracts of special books required to be read. PART II. Four complete sets of recent questions of the Board of Examiners, and Answers to Questions of July, 1910 .
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Outlines and Notes on Preliminary Law Examination of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania with Abstracts of Subjects Specially Required by the State Board of Law Examiners
John N. English
In two parts. Part I. Requirements of State Board of Examiners and outlines of work in English and American literature; history; Latin, mathematics, and modern geography; together with abstracts of special books required to read. Part II. Four complete sets of recent questions of the Board of Examiners, and Answers to Questions of July 1910.
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Roma and Forced Migration: An Annotated Bibliography
Dana Neacsu
As of 1997 there were between seven and eight and a half million Roma living in Europe. While there was ample literature on the Roma, in those pre-Internet times, there was no annotated bibliography of relevant works. This selected annotated bibliography assembled texts directly concerned with the forced migration of Roma, as well as other books, articles, periodicals, and various collections which provide background information on the Roma and their socio-economic, political and legal history. All the texts came from the NY Public Library collection. The compilation and the annotations were written by Dana Neacsu, at that time, a Consultant with the Forced Migration Project, with the assistance of Allison Mindel, Information Administrator of the Forced Migration Projects. It lists almost 400 books, articles, and periodicals dealing with Roma and migration-related issues. The forward was written by Arthur C. Helton, who founded (1994) and then directed the Forced Migration Projects at the Open Society Institute until 1999 when he became the director of peace and conflict studies and senior fellow for refugee studies and preventive action at the Council on Foreign Relations, position which he held until 2003, when he died in the August 19 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.
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Rules of Court of Allegheny County from 1879 to 1889
Percival G. Digby
Rules of Court of Allegheny County from 1879 to 1889 Supplementary to Anderson's Rules of Court
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Rules of Court. Rules, At Law and in Equity
Wiliam C. Anderson
Regulating the Practice of the courts of common pleas, and the separate orphans' court, and the courts of the oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace of the county of Allegheny, commonwealth of Pennsylvania; also, of the Supreme court and of the board of pardons of said commonwealth together with a digest of decisions and acts of assembly on the subject of general rules of court.
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The Criminal Recorder; or, An Awful Beacon to the Rising Generation
M Carey
The Criminal Recorder; or, An Awful Beacon, to the Rising Generation of Both Sexes, Erected by the Arm of Justice, to Persuade Them From the Dreadful Miseries of Guilt.
Collected from Authentic Documents, by a Friend of Man.
With six Copper-Plate Engravings.
Philadelphia: Printed for M. Carey, No.122 High-Street 1811.
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![The Talmud with English Translation and Commentary [excerpts] and Reflections on a Year of Liberal Judaism by Bruce Ledewitz](https://dsc.duq.edu/law-books/1011/thumbnail.jpg "The Talmud with English Translation and Commentary [excerpts] and Reflections on a Year of Liberal Judaism by Bruce Ledewitz")
The Talmud with English Translation and Commentary [excerpts] and Reflections on a Year of Liberal Judaism
Bruce Ledewitz
Robert Taylor/Bruce Ledewitz Book Collection
Ken Gormley Law Library, Duquesne University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Part of BL's Judaica Collection. BL started his work on a new way to read Talmud and started with the very beginning from vol. I., MISHNA. MISHNA is estimated to have been written around 200 CE and the Gemara commentary from 400-500 CE.
However, BERAHOTH is the traditional starting point when the student begins to study the TALMUD. What RT and BL realized after beginning their Talmudic study is that although the Talmud is regarded as a work of law, the very story that most students encounter is an account of getting around the law, not an account of the law itself.
The first MISHNA questions is about when one can recite Sh'ma: the starting and ending timeline point. The rule of Law that emerges from the MISHNA is that the end-time is midnight. One day, Rabbi Gamaliel's son came home from a party, and told his father that he had not recited the evening Sh'ma. The father replied, that although the rule is until midnight, you could say it until down; so, the son recited it.
The Talmud then asks, why was the stated rule so restrictive? Their answer to keep a person far from transgression.
This is the path RT and BL took us their Talmudic studies. They viewed the Talmud open to this kind of reinterpretations. Of course, they always started with the Talmudic text. (August 7, 2024).
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