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About Rachel Adelman

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Jewish Studies August 9, 2021

On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel

Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture

Mika Ahuvia

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as …
Jewish Studies January 26, 2021

Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
The rabbinic corpus begins with a question–“when?”—and is brimming with discussions about time and the relationship between people, God, and the hour. Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton UP, 2020) explores …
Jewish Studies October 9, 2020

Teaching Jewish American Literature

Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Roberta Rosenberg and Rachel Rubinstein (editors), engage our listeners in a conversation about different approaches to teaching Jewish American Literature, complicating what it means to be “American” …
Jewish Studies July 15, 2020

Holiness and Transgression

Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth

Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discusses her first book, Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth, with Rachel Adelman. Translated by Eugene Matansky and published …
Jewish Studies June 25, 2020

The Obligated Self

Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought

Mara Benjamin

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this talk, Rachel Adelman engages Mara Benjamin in a conversation about her most recent book, The Obligated Self—Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2018). Benjamin contends that …
Jewish Studies June 11, 2020

Jewish Theology Unbound

James A. Diamond

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
James A. Diamond discusses his new book, Jewish Theology Unbound (Oxford University Press, 2018), with Rachel Adelman. This book challenges the widespread caricature of Judaism as a religion of law …
Jewish Studies September 25, 2019

American Judaism

A History (2nd edition)

Jonathan Sarna

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
American Judaism: A History (Yale University Press; second edition, 2019) chronicles the 350-year history of the Jewish religion in America. Tracing American Judaism from its origins in the colonial era …