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August 21, 2024
Pogrom
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…
September 18, 2018
Philo’s Heirs
The tensions found between Reason and Revelation, between the traditions of the Bible and Greek thought, were central to pre-modern philosophy and in …
July 18, 2018
Jewish Materialism
Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s (Yale University Press, 2018) is a radical new book that uncovers a hitherto ignored inte…
April 13, 2018
Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy
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…
March 20, 2018
Hasidic Studies
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…
March 19, 2018
Redefining the Muslim Community
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…
March 12, 2018
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss
Joseph Suss Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, Duke of Wurttemberg in 1733. When Carl Alexander died, Oppenheimer was put on trial …
March 2, 2018
The First Modern Jew
Benedito/Baruch/Benedict Spinoza (1623-1677) lived at the crossroads of Dutch, scholastic, and Jewish worlds. Excommunicated from the Jewish community…
February 22, 2018
Hasidism
Who, or what, are Hasidim? A movement that was once mysterious and inaccessible has recently risen to the forefront of popular consciousness. Whether …
February 13, 2018
Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed'
Alfred Ivry's book, Maimonides' 'Guide of the Perplexed': A Philosophical Guide (University of Chicago, 2016) is the only modern commentary in English…
February 6, 2018
Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response, 1391-1392
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…
January 23, 2018
Gershom Scholem
Noam Zadoff begins his biography of Gershon Scholem, one of the 20th century's greatest scholars and an equally perplexing intellectual, at the point …