Torah Umadda The Encounter of Religious Learning and Wordly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition

Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, examines whether there is room within a traditional religious education for secular studies. He supports the argument that a mixture of traditional religion and worldly knowledge is not only acceptable, but recommended. Among those whose ideas he examines are Maimonides, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Abraham Isaac Kook.Lamm, Norman is the author of 'Torah Umadda The Encounter of Religious Learning and Wordly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition', published 1994 under ISBN 9781568212319 and ISBN 1568212313.