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Jewish Studies
September 18, 2018
Philo’s Heirs
Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas
Luis Cortest
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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 a sense remain so today. We live …
Jewish Studies
July 18, 2018
Jewish Materialism
The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s
Eliyahu Stern
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Moses Lapin
Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s (Yale University Press, 2018) is a radical new book that uncovers a hitherto ignored intellectual movement in Jewish Eastern Europe, and finds …
Jewish Studies
April 27, 2018
Pogrom
Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Steven J. Zipperstein
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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 small story lost to us along …
Jewish Studies
April 13, 2018
Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy
Joshua Parens
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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 Philosophy (University of Rochester Press, 2016) …
Jewish Studies
March 20, 2018
Hasidic Studies
Essays in History and Gender
Ada Rapoport-Albert
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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 history of Hasidism ---its origins, the …
Intellectual History
March 19, 2018
Redefining the Muslim Community
Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi
Alexander Orwin
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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 known by Jews, Christians, and …
Jewish Studies
March 12, 2018
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss
The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Yair Mintzker
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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 and condemned to death for his …
Jewish Studies
March 2, 2018
The First Modern Jew
Spinoza and the History of an Image
Daniel Schwartz
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Moses Lapin
Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at 23, his works would later be put on the …
Jewish Studies
February 22, 2018
Hasidism
A New History
David Biale, et al.
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Who, or what, are Hasidim? A movement that was once mysterious and inaccessible has recently risen to the forefront of popular consciousness. Whether it be in last years acclaimed film …
Jewish Studies
February 13, 2018
Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed'
A Philosophical Guide
Alfred Ivry
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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 to explicate Maimonides' summa The Guide of the …
Jewish Studies
February 6, 2018
Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392
Benjamin R. Gampel
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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) is the first total history of a lesser …
Jewish Studies
January 23, 2018
Gershom Scholem
From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back
Noam Zadoff
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Noam Zadoff begins his biography of Gershon Scholem, one of the 20th century's greatest scholars and an equally perplexing intellectual, at the point where Scholem ends his own autobiography From …