Dr. Eitan Fishbane will speak at JTS on Tuesday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m. Fishbane will speak on Isaac ben Samuel of Akko, the subject of his recently published book As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist.
I happen to see the title page of an English and Yiddish translation of the Hafetz Hayyim’s book Nidhei Yisarel, not necessarily anything out of the ordinary. What I found interesting was that it was published by his son “Rabbi Aaron Kagan, Ph.D.” I know very little about the families of rabbis, but I found [...]
Starting this week, Torah in Motion is offering a number of classes free-of-charge. This series has an excellent selection, ranging from Shai Secunda on “The Talmud and its World” to Dan Rabinowitz on “Forgeries and Censorship in Jewish Literature and Jewish Tradition.” These are just two of the very interesting classes in this series. You [...]
Here are two new books on Talmud that have recently been published. The first one is Marc Hirschman’s The Stabilization of Rabbinic Culture, 100 C.E. -350 C.E.: Texts on Education and Their Late Antique Context. For those who aren’t familiar with Hirshman’s work, you can find a talk of his, “Jewish and Christian Battles Over [...]
The Tikvah Institute for Jewish Thought at JTS Presents: Professor Moshe Idel “Devequt in the Thought of Rabbi Israel Ba‘al Shem Tov” Moderation and Response by Dr. Eitan Fishbane, JTS Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 12:30 pm Mendelson Convocation Center light refreshments will be served
Something which struck me from Claudé Levi-Strauss’s The Savage Mind (pp. 257-8) which I came across this summer. For, ex hypothesi, a historical fact is what really took place, but where did anything take place? Each episode in a revolution or war resolves itself into a multitude of individual psychic movements. Each of these movements [...]
The influential French-Jewish anthropologist Claudé Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. Levi-Strauss influenced researchers in many fields and you can read here an introduction to his thought. See here and here for discussions of Levi-Strauss’s influence on biblical studies. Also see this article on his life and work from the Forward.
For those who read Hebrew, there is a very good blog about religion, politics, and culture- לולאת האל. The blog has a recent post on Israeli music, specifically about music that could be described as Jewish music, whether because of the themes or lyrics. The post summarizes a number of recent articles that have been [...]
Moshe Idel will be speaking at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, on Monday, November 16. He will speak on “Kabbalah and Eros.” The talk will be in Titsworth Lecture Hall at 5:00 p.m.
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