The Bus on Jaffa Road: The Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
Nov 19, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The Bus on Jaffa Road explores the 1996 incident that took the lives of JTS student Matthew Eisenfeld (z”l) and his fiancée, Sara Duker (z”l), and the couple’s legacy.
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Catalog of Judeo-Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Oct 23, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The JTS Library holds the largest Judeo-Persian manuscript collection in the West, and the third largest in the world. This repository is crucial in understanding the intellectual legacy of the ancient Iranian Jewish community, whose extant works rest in only a few large but neglected collections.
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The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan
Apr 10, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The philosophy of Mordecai M. Kaplan, longtime professor at JTS (1910 – 1963), dean of its Teachers Institute (1909 – 1946), and founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, is presented in its entirety for the first time in The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan.
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Memory and Covenant
Feb 3, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Memory and Covenant: The Role of Israel’s and God’s Memory in Sustaining the Deuteronomic and Priestly Covenants combines a close reading of texts in the Deuteronomic, Priestly, and Holiness traditions with analysis of ritual and scrutiny of the different terminology regarding memory that is used in each tradition.
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Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
Feb 10, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
The recent discovery of a new trove of Nazi-looted art in Germany has awakened us to the world of culture and ideas that was lost when Hitler came to power. Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School tells the forgotten story of Hamburg’s emergence as a center of that early 20th-century intellectual world.
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Gospel of Freedom
Jan 29, 2014 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Dr. Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” illuminating both its timeless message and crucial position in the history of civil rights.
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A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel
Nov 11, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Novelist Dara Horn, the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards, on her new book, A Guide For The Perplexed: A Novel.
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Rav Hisda’s Daughter
May 14, 2013 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event audio
Maggie Anton, the award-winning author of the historical fiction series Rashi’s Daughters and Rav Hisda’s Daughter, a Talmud scholar with expertise in Jewish women’s history, and an esteemed lecturer, gave this Library Book Talk at JTS on Monday, April 29, 2013.
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