Outline of the Gilboa Institute of the Humanities

and a profile of JYT

　　　　

Jacob Yuroh Teshima, Doctor of Hebrew Literature

Born in Pusan, Korea, January 11th,1942. Citizen of Japan.

EDUCATION:

1977: Doctor of Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, USA., by the dissertation on "Zen Buddhism and Hasidism, A Comparative Study",which was read by Prof. Seymour Siegel of The Jewish Theological Seminary and Prof. Philip Yampolsky of Columbia University. 1972: Master of Arts, majoring in the Bible & Jewish Philosophy, The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York . 1967: Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. 1961ｰｰ63; studied philosophy at the Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.

PROFESSIONAL RECORD :

1985--Present; Director General, The Gilboa Institute of the Humanities, Fujisawa, Consulting for organization development and educating corporate personnel through original programs. 1984 ｰｰ85; Executive Director, The Japan Business Sharing Co. Ltd., Tokyo. 1977ｰｰ84; Senior Consultant for Personnel Development Program, The Cambridge Corporation,Tokyo. 1974ｰｰ76; Lecturer in Philosophy, The University of Judaism, Los Angeles.　

　

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The Gilboa Institute of the Humanities is a consulting firm, established by JYT in May, 1985. He is proud of the records of his service which satisfied many distinguished clients such as Hitachi, NEC, Diamond, Nikkei and others.

He provides custom-made professional training programs for corporate staffs and executives. The lectures presented by Dr. Teshima receive the highest reputation from the audience everywhere. He trained more than 6,000 high-tech industry sales people, more than 1,000 corporate managers and executives, and many other professionals such as teachers and medical doctors.

Once a big name Japanese company came to a deadlock in negotiation with her foreign client. He advised them a strategy for the negotiation. They followed his advice. Consequently, the foreign client withdrew their excessive demands and the contract was happily made.

He also publish "News Letter for the Executives," a biweekly Japanese fax news service, in which he discusses various current international issues as well as domestic problems, and analyzes the essence of the problem in the light of the Jewish law and the Talmudic thoughts.

He wrote more than a dozen books on Jewish thought. His first book, "Yudayajin-wa Naze Yushu-ka" （What's behind Jewish Excellence ), published in 1979, was widely accepted as an excellent introduction to Jewish life and Judaism. "Yudayajin-no Bijinesu Tetsugaku, (A Jewish Business Philosophy), published in 1994, showed an authentic Jewish business ethics to the Japanese readers and effectively stopped the spread of the so-called anti-Semitism in Japan.

His recent book, "Yudaya Talmud Business, (Business Philosophy of Talmud)", originally published in Japanese in 1998, was translated into Korean and Chinese and emancipating the readers in those emerging countries. In Korea more than 80,000 people welcomed it.

His latest book in Chinese, "What's behind the Jewish Excellence?" (320 pages, Central Compilation and Translation Press, Beijing) is ranked one of best selling books in China

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