Class of 2014!

Mazel Tov to the HAMC Class of 2014! 

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Alumni Social

On Monday evening, before the 8th grade Purim play, HAMC alumni from the classes of '11, '10 and '09 hung out at the academy after school.  They ate pizza, reconnected with their old teachers and reminisced about their great times spent at the HAMC.  Afterwards everyone went to the Purim play together and supported their younger classmates.  We can't believe that pretty soon those 8th graders on stage will be joining the HAMC alumni circle!

An Alumnus Awarded

Baruch Spinoza

From the Foundation for Jewish Culture ...

Congratulations to Daniel Schwartz of George Washington University, winner of the 2010 Sidney and Hadassah Musher Subvention Grant to support the publication of his forthcoming book, From Heretic to Hero: Spinoza in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Princeton University Press).

Dr. Schwartz also was a recipient of a Doctoral Dissertation fellowship in Jewish studies (2003-2004). And, we would like to add, Daniel is a Hebrew Academy of Morris County alumnus!

In making its recommendation, the FJC scholarship cited the importance and originality of Dr. Schwartz’s book, noting that it is likely to become one of the most important books published in Jewish studies in the past decade.

Furthermore, the committee writes:

Daniel Schwartz’s book is a path-breaking study of the multiple and important ways in which a great Jewish hero (or anti-hero) has been understood in modern Jewish culture. The figure at the heart of the study is Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community in 1656.

Schwartz presents an illuminating history of Spinoza’s remarkable afterlife in modern Jewish thought, literature, and culture. He traces Spinoza’s surprising and powerful presence in German-Jewish fiction, Zionist ideology, and Yiddish letters, among other sites. The result is a tour of many of the major centers of modern Jewish culture, seen through the prism of the appropriation and constant re-branding of a major, iconoclastic cultural creator.

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