Summer 2022 Learning Series: Stories and Storytelling
Mondays, starting June 20
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET (note new time)
Online
Join JTS scholars online to explore a selection of stories drawn from ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern Jewish literature. We will consider the power of shared stories and how they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, bringing Jews together across time and space.
Sessions and Faculty
June 20
(Far From) All About Eve
With Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of Jewish Studies
June 27
Telling Difficult Stories: Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock
With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics
July 11
B’Khol Dor Va Dor: How Jewish Storytelling Shapes the Religious Imagination and Orients us in Time and Space
With Rabbi Mychal Springer, Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and Adjunct Professor, JTS
July 18
Passion and Violence: A Contemporary Philosophical Reading of the Sacrifice of Isaac
With Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Adjunct Associate Professor
July 25
A Jewish Doctor in Medieval Spain and His Demon: The Book of Delight by Joseph Ibn Zabara
With Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Literature
August 1
What Six Very Short Stories in the Babylonian Talmud Tell Us About Jewish Law and Life
With Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor Emerita of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture
August 8
The Protest Literature of Mizrahi Writers
With Dr. Beverly Bailis, Adjunct Associate Professor of Jewish Literature
August 15
Alexander, Was He Great? Rabbinic Criticism of Rome through Alexander Narratives
With Dr. Benjamin Levy, Adjunct Associate Professor
August 22
The Stories that Objects Tell
With Dr. Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature
