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Intellectual History
September 18, 2020
Unbinding Isaac
The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought
Aaron Koller
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Aaron Koller, professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, provides a …
Literature
February 28, 2020
Family Papers
A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), Sarah Abrevaya Stein weaves a narrative tapestry whose threads are drawn from the archives of …
German Studies
November 11, 2019
Martin Buber
A Life of Faith and Dissent
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent (Yale University Press, 2019), Paul Mendes-Flohr, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem …
German Studies
February 18, 2019
Martin Buber's Theopolitics
Samuel Hayim Brody
Hosted by David Gottlieb
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 activism. In Martin Buber's …
Food
August 6, 2018
A Rich Brew
How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
Shachar M. Pinsker
Hosted by David Gottlieb
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, Israel, and the United States …
Literary Studies
May 10, 2018
The Talmud
A Biography
Barry Wimpfheimer
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In The Talmud: A Biography (Princeton University Press, 2018), Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, associate professor of religious studies and law at Northwestern University, introduces the reader to the Babylonian Talmud, the …
European Studies
March 23, 2018
Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism, and Women's Equality
Motti Inbari
Hosted by David Gottlieb
Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy, in its numerous manifestations, continues to exert profound influence on the Jewish world, even as it undergoes pressure to change from both within and without. In Jewish Radical …
American Studies
January 16, 2018
Bad Rabbi And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Eddy Portnoy
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In Bad Rabbi And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press (Stanford University Press, 2017), Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor and Exhibitions Curator at the YIVO Institute for Yiddish …
Biblical Studies
October 23, 2017
The Great Shift
Encountering God in Biblical Times
James L. Kugel
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In a career spanning several decades, James L. Kugel has illuminated the Hebrew Bible from the perspectives of both a biblical scholar of enormous skill and eloquence and as an …
Christian Studies
October 16, 2017
Sacrifice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
David L. Weddle
Hosted by David Gottlieb
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 Religion at Colorado College, that …
Genocide Studies
September 20, 2017
Witnessing Unbound
Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory
Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Habbo Knoch, eds.
Hosted by David Gottlieb
Witnessing Unbound: Holocaust Representation and the Origins of Memory (Wayne State University Press, 2017) is a collection of essays and interviews that offer fresh insight on the last of the …
Biography
July 31, 2017
Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script
Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism
Elias Sacks
Hosted by David Gottlieb
The work of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), one of Judaism's great philosophers and defenders, has nonetheless defied easy categorization or definitive depiction. While advocating for the granting of full rights to …