Menachem Mendel

Posted on September 22nd, 2011 under Halakhic Literature, Jewish History, Jewish Law, Middle Ages, Public Events. Comments Off

Talya Fishman’s book Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures has been published. From the publisher’s web site: What were the historical circumstances that led to the inscription of Oral Torah in medieval Europe? How did this body of ancient rabbinic traditions, replete with legal controversies and [...]

Posted on May 23rd, 2011 under Middle Ages, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 1

For your weekend reading: Zev Farber, “Extra-Legal Punishments in Medieval Jewish Courts,” in Mishpetei Shalom – A Jubilee Volume in Honor of Rabbi Saul (Shalom) Berman, edited by Yamin Levy (Ktav Pub, 2010). Available here.

Posted on January 13th, 2011 under Halakhic Literature, Jewish Law, Legal History, Middle Ages, Rabbinic Literature, Responsa. Comments: 3

The Bodleian Library at Oxford has put one of the most important MS of the Mishneh Torah online. Huntington 80, an authorized copy of the MT, can now be viewed at this website. The site is very nice and they plan to put more of their Rambam related material online at a later date.

Posted on November 8th, 2010 under Jewish Law, Manuscripts, Middle Ages, Online resources, Rabbinic Literature. Comments: 1

This paper was presented at a conference a few years ago, but it hasn’t lost its relevance. (hat tip) Jews and Healing in the Middle Ages: The Harmonisation of Jewish Beliefs with Theories and Practices of Different Western Medical Traditions. Available here. By Carmen Caballero-Navas Paper given at the Conference on Religion and Healing and [...]

Posted on October 26th, 2010 under History, Jewish History, Jewish-Gentile Relations, Middle Ages, Religion. Comments Off

Professor Meira Pollack of Tel-Aviv University will speak at JTS on Monday, March 8, 3:40 p.m. Her topic will be, “Karaites Against Rabbinites? The Developing Methods of Biblical Interpretation”

Posted on March 1st, 2010 under Bible Studies, Middle Ages, Public Events. Comments Off

H-German has a review of two new books on Medieval European Jewry. The first book is Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France. The second book is David Joshua Malkiel, Reconstructing Ashkenaz: The Human Face of Franco-German Jewry, 1000-1250. I finally arrived at the AJS conference [...]

Posted on December 21st, 2009 under Ashkenaz, Book Reviews, Jewish History, Middle Ages, Tosafot. Comments Off

Mary Kate Hurley has a very interesting post at In the Middle, “Is There a Methodology in this Class.” From the title, it is not surprisingly in response to a talk by Stanley Fish. The post raises a number of very important questions which hopefully many who study Talmudic and Rabbinic literature critically are thinking [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2009 under Academia, Middle Ages, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud Study, Textual Studies. Comments Off

Forwarded to me by my friend JB.

Posted on February 26th, 2009 under Halakhic Literature, Jewish Law, Jewish Thought, Jewish-Gentile Relations, Middle Ages, Public Events. Comments Off