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Part of the series, 鈥淪tories and Storytelling鈥�

With Dr. Barbara Mann, Chana Kekst Professor of 黑料社 Literature

This session is generously sponsored by Yale Asbell, JTS Trustee

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Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

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At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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Part of the series, 鈥淪tories and Storytelling鈥�

With Dr. Alan Cooper, Elaine Ravich Professor of 黑料社 Studies, JTS

Biblical storytellers are notorious for withholding crucial information about characters鈥� backgrounds, thoughts, feelings, and motivations. The story of Eve in Genesis is an extraordinary case in point. There are yawning gaps in the narrative, and the diverse ways that readers fill those gaps engender remarkably divergent interpretations. What do we learn about biblical storytelling when we confront a text that can be interpreted in diametrically opposite ways? And what do we learn about ourselves from the interpretive decisions that we make? 

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ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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Part of the series, “Stories and Storytelling”

With Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics 

If stories express and transmit values and identities, contested values or identities will find expression in complex, challenging stories. This is certainly true of Philip Roth鈥檚 Operation Shylock, which gives expression to discomforts in Diaspora identities vis-脿-vis Israel during the first intifada鈥攁nd beyond. Join David Kraemer in exploring Roth鈥檚 recounting of the conflicts of this time, as Jews asked questions that are as pertinent today as they were then. 

ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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奥颈迟丑听Dr. Beverly Bailis, Adjunct Associate Professor of 黑料社 Literature听听

Dr. Bailis discusses protest literature written by different generations of Mizrahi writers and examine how these literary works give voice to these writers鈥� experience in Israeli society, from the Great Immigration in the 1950s to today. In particular, considering how the stories these writers tell engage with the past and traditional 黑料社 texts, while also looking transnationally to the stories of other cultures and communities, including Palestinians and African Americans, to articulate the complexity of Mizrahi identity in the current historical moment. Writers under discussion will include Ronny Someck, Almog Behar, and Adi Keissar.听

ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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Part of the series, 鈥淪tories and Storytelling鈥�

奥颈迟丑听Dr. Benjamin Levy, Adjunct Assistant Professor

The rabbis of late antiquity did not write books of theology or political treatises. Rather, they composed stories that would draw the heart and guide the mind to communicate those ideas and practices they deemed essential to 黑料社 continuity and growth after the destruction of the Second Temple. To accomplish this the sages often redesigned existing literature from the surrounding culture. In 鈥淎lexander, was he great?鈥� Ben Levy explores the ways that the rabbis of late antiquity lampooned stories of Alexander appearing in the popular Greek Alexander Romance, a collection of legends praising Alexander鈥檚 fabulous deeds and travels, to criticize Roman imperialism and creatively resist their rule. As conceptions of the Other are frequently employed to formulate the self, Dr. Levy illustrates the rabbis鈥� use of these narratives to establish and define a 黑料社 identity that stands in distinction to the morals and behaviors of Rome.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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Part of the series, 鈥淪tories and Storytelling鈥�

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

By reading six very short stories in the Babylonian Talmud, we discover that not just rabbinic pronouncements established 黑料社 law, but so did reports of rabbinic performance of the law. We will see Rabbis complying with, and sometime rebelling against, earlier stated rules. As we read these texts, we will tease out details of everyday life and relations between the sexes. Whether these anecdotes actually took place or not makes no difference. They are an invaluable source for understanding how the Rabbis viewed and modified transmitted traditions.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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Part of the series, 鈥淪tories and Storytelling鈥�

Dr. Raymond Scheindlin, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Hebrew Literature  

Joseph, the protagonist of this proto-novel, at the urging of a mysterious companion, undertakes a journey that takes him to the land of the demons. We will read and discuss some of the stories that the travelers tell each other along the way and will attempt to unravel who the mysterious companion actually is. 

ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu

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The Sacrifice of Isaac is a paradigmatic episode in 黑料社 philosophy, ethics, and interpretation. But new ideas in modern and postmodern philosophy call us to re-read this narrative, and change the ways we have often read the story. We will re-tell this story according to an 鈥渙ld-new鈥� method, amalgamating historical and emblematic ways of viewing the story, but also bringing new ideas to the fore, especially around the ideas of passion and holiness in 黑料社 thought. Dr. Miriam Feldman Kaye proposes important suggestions for reading the Sacrifice of Isaac in our contemporary world.

Part of the series, 鈥淪tories and Storytelling鈥�

With Dr. Miriam Feldmann Kaye, Adjunct Associate Professor 

ABOUT THE SERIES

Join JTS scholars to explore a selection of stories drawn from across ancient, rabbinic, medieval, and modern 黑料社 literature. We will consider the power of shared stories, the unique ways in which they transmit values, norms, culture, and information, and how they can bring Jews together across time and space.  

SPONSOR A SESSION

At JTS, we are committed to providing the 黑料社 community with outstanding classes in Judaic studies. We hope you will partner with us so that we can continue to do so. Did you know that you can sponsor a learning session to honor a loved one, celebrate an occasion, or commemorate a yahrzeit? You can find sponsorship information . Questions? Contact learninglives@jtsa.edu