Thinking and Killing Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich

May 25, 2016 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio

In this Library Book Talk, Professor Alon Segev discusses his book, Thinking and Killing—Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich, which deals with the contribution of eight German thinkers to the discussion about the Holocaust and the Final Solution.

In God’s Image: Myth, Theology, and Law in Classical Judaism

Oct 20, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio

A discussion with author Dr. Yair Lorberbaum, professor at Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law and senior researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Portrait of the Kings: The Davidic Prototype in Deuteronomistic Poetics

Oct 15, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio

A discussion with author Dr. Alison L. Joseph, adjunct assistant professor of Bible at JTS and visiting assistant professor at Towson University.

All This Has Come Upon Us

May 12, 2015 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio

An evening with Mark Podwal, artist, physician, author, and former Op-Ed artist of the New York Times

Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place

Mar 15, 2016 By David C. Kraemer | Public Event audio

In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, Jews were faced with a world in existential chaos—both they and their God were rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that equated Divine approval with peaceful dwelling on the Land, this situation was intolerable. In response, the Rabbis sought to build new “structures,” new homes for both God and Israel. Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place offers the first comprehensive study of spatiality in rabbinic Judaism, exploring how the Rabbis reoriented the Jewish relationship with space and place following the conquest and destruction.