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Luis Cortest, "Philo’s Heirs: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas" (Academic Studies Press, 2017)

September 18, 2018

Philo’s Heirs

Luis Cortest
Hosted by Moses Lapin

The tensions found between Reason and Revelation, between the traditions of the Bible and Greek thought, were central to pre-modern philosophy and in …

Eliyahu Stern, "Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s" (Yale UP, 2018)

July 18, 2018

Jewish Materialism

Eliyahu Stern
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s (Yale University Press, 2018) is a radical new book that uncovers a hitherto ignored inte…

Steven J. Zipperstein, "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" (Liveright, 2018)

April 27, 2018

Pogrom

Steven J. Zipperstein
Hosted by Moses Lapin

In what has become perhaps the most infamous example of modern anti-Jewish violence prior to the Holocaust, the Kishinev pogrom should have been a sma…

Joshua Parens, "Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy" (U Rochester Press, 2016)

April 13, 2018

Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy

Joshua Parens
Hosted by Moses Lapin

In today's episode, I am joined by Joshua Parens to discuss his innovative and engaging book Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philos…

Ada Rapoport-Albert, "Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender" (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2018)

March 20, 2018

Hasidic Studies

Ada Rapoport-Albert
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Hasidic Studies: Essays in History and Gender is a collection of essays that spans over 40 years and challenges many received notions about the histor…

Alexander Orwin, "Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

March 19, 2018

Redefining the Muslim Community

Alexander Orwin
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Abu Nasr Al-Farabi (c. 872 - c. 950) a philosopher who wrote on politics, metaphysics, and logic as well as mathematics, psychology, and music, was kn…

Yair Mintzker, "The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew" (Princeton UP, 2017)

March 12, 2018

The Many Deaths of Jew Suss

Yair Mintzker
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Joseph Suss Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, Duke of Wurttemberg in 1733. When Carl Alexander died, Oppenheimer was put on trial …

Daniel B. Schwartz, "The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image" (Princeton UP, 2012)

March 2, 2018

The First Modern Jew

Daniel Schwartz
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community…

David Biale, "Hasidism: A New History" (Princeton UP, 2018)

February 22, 2018

Hasidism

David Biale, et al.
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Who, or what, are Hasidim? A movement that was once mysterious and inaccessible has recently risen to the forefront of popular consciousness. Whether …

Alfred Ivry, "Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed': A Philosophical Guide" (U Chicago, 2016)

February 13, 2018

Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed'

Alfred Ivry
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Alfred Ivry's book, Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed': A Philosophical Guide (University of Chicago, 2016) is the only modern commentary in English…

Benjamin R. Gampel, "Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392" (Cambridge UP, 2016)

February 6, 2018

Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392

Benjamin R. Gampel
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Benjamin R. Gampel's award winning volume Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392 (Cambridge University Press, 2016…

Noam Zadoff, "Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back" (Brandeis UP, 2018)

January 23, 2018

Gershom Scholem

Noam Zadoff
Hosted by Moses Lapin

Noam Zadoff begins his biography of Gershon Scholem, one of the 20th century's greatest scholars and an equally perplexing intellectual, at the point …