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About David Gottlieb
David Gottlieb is a faculty member in the Jewish Studies program at Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. He is the author of Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Memory (Gorgias Press, 2019).
NBN Episodes hosted by David:
February 12, 2024
Martin Buber
In Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (Yale University Press, 2019), Paul Mendes-Flohr, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinit…
November 16, 2023
Fractured Tablets
The Rabbinic Sages of the Tannaitic era were fixated on memory and terrified of forgetfulness. In promulgating their own interpretations of Jewish law…
December 20, 2022
Why Study Religion?
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research proce…
September 2, 2022
Humanity Divided
Throughout a hugely productive intellectual career spanning more than half a century, the Austrian-born philosopher Martin Buber returned repeatedly t…
March 22, 2022
When I Grow Up
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers (Bloomsbury, 2021), the latest graphic nonfiction narrative from New Yorker cartooni…
July 9, 2021
Fragile Finitude
Perhaps no scholar has exerted a more decisive influence on the study of Jewish thought and theology over the past half century than Michael Fishbane.…
September 18, 2020
Unbinding Isaac
In Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Aaron Koller, professor of Near Easte…
February 28, 2020
Family Papers
In Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), Sarah Abrevaya Stein weaves a narrative tapestr…
February 18, 2019
Martin Buber's Theopolitics
Martin Buber is known as one of the 20th century's greatest Jewish scholars and thinkers, but he is less well known for his political theory and activ…
August 6, 2018
A Rich Brew
The café, long a European institution, was also a stimulant and a refuge for European Jewish culture. In cities across Europe, and later in Palestine,…
May 10, 2018
The Talmud
In The Talmud: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2018), Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, associate professor of religious studies and law at Northwest…
March 23, 2018
Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women's Equality
Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy, in its numerous manifestations, continues to exert profound influence on the Jewish world, even as it undergoes pressure to ch…
January 16, 2018
Bad Rabbi And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
In Bad Rabbi And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press (Stanford University Press, 2017), Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor and Exhibitio…
October 23, 2017
The Great Shift
In a career spanning several decades, James L. Kugel has illuminated the Hebrew Bible from the perspectives of both a biblical scholar of enormous ski…
October 16, 2017
Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Is there one principal avenue of exploration that could lead to the very heart of the religious experience? For David L. Weddle, professor emeritus of…
September 20, 2017
Witnessing Unbound
​​Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory (Wayne State University Press, 2017) is a ​collection of es…
July 31, 2017
Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script
The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism's great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive…
July 13, 2017
Sharing the Burden
In Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar (SUNY Press, 2015), Geoffrey D. Claussen provides a thorough study of the l…
June 26, 2017
A Remembrance of his Wonders
In A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), David I. Shyovitz, Associa…
May 31, 2017
Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism
In her new book, Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017), Professor Sarah Imhoff explores the relationship bet…
April 24, 2017
The Last Rabbi
In The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2016), William Kolbrener, professor of English at Bar Ilan Un…
March 27, 2017
Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah
Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah (Wayne State University Press, 2017) opens new vistas not only on the history of the practice of magic throug…
March 20, 2017
Broken Tablets
In Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion (Columbia University Press, 2016), Sarah Hammerschlag, Associate Professor…
March 6, 2017
Holocaust
In her most recent book, Holocaust: An American Understanding (Rutgers University Press), Deborah Lipstadt reviews and analyzes the emergence of Holoc…