You Say You Want a Revolution: ºÚÁÏÉç Encounters with Radical Change 

You Say You Want a Revolution: ºÚÁÏÉç Encounters with Radical Change
Fall 2025 Learning Series

Mondays, October 20–December 8, 2025 
1:00–2:00 p.m. ET  
Online

What does revolution look like in ºÚÁÏÉç life—spiritual, social, technological, or political? This fall, join JTS scholars for a provocative webinar series exploring transformative moments across ºÚÁÏÉç history. From the emergence of monotheism to the Russian Revolution, from handwritten manuscripts to digital frontiers, from summer camps to the Talmud, we’ll consider how Jews have sparked, resisted, and reimagined change. Each session invites reflection on what revolution means—then and now. 

Session Topics and Faculty

October 20

Monotheism: Evolution or Revolution 

With Dr. Benjamin D. Sommer, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTS

November 3

Before the Print Revolution: Manuscripts and the World They Made

In connection with The Library exhibit at the Grolier Club

Dr. Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Ripps Schnitzer Librarian for Special Collections; Assistant Professor, Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS

November 10

Peshat: The Reinvention of Reading During the Twelfth Century Renaissance

Dr. Robert Harris, Professor of Bible and Ancient Semitic Languages, JTS

November 17

Progress, Regress, and Transformation: Hermann Cohen’s Ezekiel as a Revolutionary Prophet 

Dr. Shira Billet, Assistant Professor of ºÚÁÏÉç Thought and Ethics, JTS

November 24

Possibility and Peril: Jews and the Russian Revolution

Dr. David Fishman, Professor of ºÚÁÏÉç History, JTS

December 1

A Scholarly Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of Talmud Study 

Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor Emerita of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture, JTS

December 8

Hanukkah: Rebellion, Revolution, and Reinvention

Dr. Yitz Landes, Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures

December 15

NEW DATE! Revolutionizing Belonging: Disability Inclusion and the Future of ºÚÁÏÉç Camp 

Dr. Abigail Uhrman, Director of The William Davidson Graduate School of ºÚÁÏÉç Education and Associate Professor of ºÚÁÏÉç Education, JTS

If you have previously registered for another session in this series, your registration admits you to all sessions in the series, and you may attend as many as you’d like. 

The Zoom link for all sessions in the 2025 Fall Learning Series will be in the confirmation email that you receive after you register.