*****Official Rabbi/Prof Jay Holstein Thread*****

[spiderland]

Consider this a repository for all things related to J-C Tradition (NOT The Tradition), Quest for Human Destiny, or any other fortuitous intellectual encounter you may have had with the master.

I recently uncovered my notebook from QFHD Spring 1984. Reading list:

Ecclesiastes
Catcher in the Rye
Old Man and the Sea
Siddhartha
Childhood’s End
The King Must Die
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Tarzan

We watched 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lord of the Flies.

I have a note about Breaker Morant, so clearly Holstein had seen the film, but it probably hadn’t been released yet to be shown outside of theaters.

Religion = a feeling of inadequacy and a response to that feeling.

Whatcha got?

 

[ConvenientParking]

I regrettably never took his class. I tried reading Catcher In the Rye when I was 24 or 25 and had to put it down after about 30 pages because I hated Holden so much. Credit to Salinger, I fully believed Holden was real. I could probably read it now and not hate Holden.

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

Quest for Human Destiny (maybe 1992?) was by far the best class I ever had from Kindergarten through my masters. Holstein is a legend.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

I regrettably never took his class. I tried reading Catcher In the Rye when I was 24 or 25 and had to put it down after about 30 pages because I hated Holden so much. Credit to Salinger, I fully believed Holden was real. I could probably read it now and not hate Holden.

Same. And I read A Day in the Life of Ivan… in HS and it was a slog. Depressing. But I was too young for that too.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

He introduced me to the movie Breaker Morant. If for nothing else, I thank him

 

[Jimmy McGill]

The last video needs to be heard before anyone goes to college

 

[spiderland]

He introduced me to the movie Breaker Morant. If for nothing else, I thank him

In my notes he made the Breaker Morant reference during our discussion about Ecclesiastes: “Live each day as if it were your last, for one day you’re sure to be right.”

 

[SiouxCyty]

Consider this a repository for all things related to J-C Tradition (NOT The Tradition), Quest for Human Destiny, or any other fortuitous intellectual encounter you may have had with the master.

I recently uncovered my notebook from QFHD Spring 1984. Reading list:

Ecclesiastes
Catcher in the Rye
Old Man and the Sea
Siddhartha
Childhood’s End
The King Must Die
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Tarzan

We watched 2001: A Space Odyssey and Lord of the Flies.

I have a note about Breaker Morant, so clearly Holstein had seen the film, but it probably hadn’t been released yet to be shown outside of theaters.

Religion = a feeling of inadequacy and a response to that feeling.

Whatcha got?

Breaker Morant is a great film.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Old Testament Survey....Spring 1988.

Yu-Ho-Wa-Huh

 

[JWolf74]

Never had him. Most of the science professors were pretty dry. Dr. Stauss was a hoot though. Never used a laser pointer, he carried around an 8 foot bamboo stick with a tennis ball on the end.

 

[hawkifann]

I never took his class, but I wish I had. My favorite professors at Iowa were Shelton Stromquist (history) and John Erickson & John Bennett in the journalism department.

 

[JRHawk2003]

I never took his class, but I wish I had. My favorite professors at Iowa were Shelton Stromquist (history) and John Erickson & John Bennett in the journalism department.

Old Jonathan Goldstein is the guy who got me into Plutarch's Lives. Also Sydney James was a Colonial American History Professor I liked.

 

[anon_b29nm7v7dwp6r]

Quest and Jay Holstein was a very interesting experience…and what college is all about.

 

[Tom Paris]

He told a Holocaust joke in Judeo Christian Tradition and said if anyone laughed he would punch them in the face. What’s the difference between a Jew and a pizza? The pizza doesn’t scream when you put it in the oven. Nobody laughed.

 

[GOHOX69]

I took real classes. Sorry.

 

[ConvenientParking]

STEMLord enters the chat. From the top rope (GOHOX is Kenny Powers in this vid):

 

[GOHOX69]

STEMLord enters the chat. From the top rope (GOHOX is Kenny Powers in this vid):

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Just the facts buddy.

 

[hawkifann]

Old Jonathan Goldstein is the guy who got me into Plutarch's Lives. Also Sydney James was a Colonial American History Professor I liked.

Goldstein was my advisor for History (graduated double major with Journalism). I took one of his Ancient Greece classes and he and I just never clicked. Solid human being, but not one of my favorite profs. He knew his sh1t, though.

 

[GOHOX69]

Sarah A. Holstein, MD, PhD

Dr. Sarah A. Holstein is a Professor in the Division of Oncology & Hematology at UNMC.

www.unmc.edu

 

[spiderland]

I took real classes. Sorry.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Goldstein was my advisor for History (graduated double major with Journalism). I took one of his Ancient Greece classes and he and I just never clicked. Solid human being, but not one of my favorite profs. He knew his sh1t, though.

Did you have Malcolm Rohrbaugh? He did American West stuff. I liked him too. I had a minor in American History.

 

[hawkifann]

Did you have Malcolm Rohrbaugh? He did American West stuff. I liked him too. I had a minor in American History.

That name sounds familiar and I did take one class on something in the American West, so I probably did have him. Don’t really remember him, though. I was disappointed when I could only get The Gilded Age in my first semester after switching to Journalism/History, but then Stromquist was amazing and the post-Reconstruction/pre-WWI became my favorite era of US history.

 

[prudence]

I took Quest as a three week summer class. Approximately 30-40 students in the room. One of the best classes and learning experiences I’ve ever had.