The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

Podcast Episodes

74. The Global Haskalah | Dr. Lital Levy

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Lital Levy explore the Jewish Nahda, and the border-ignoring breadth of the Haskalah. 

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73. Offerings and Sacrifices | Dr. Shlomo Zuckier

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Shlomo Zuckier offer up some sweet-smelling insight into the history and future of sacrifices. 

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72. Piyyut and Midrash | Dr. Tzvi Novick

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Novick talk prayer, poetry, homily, and some very-old-fashioned exegesis.

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71. Heinrich Graetz | Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger discuss the work and impact of the most influential Jewish Historian since Josephus.

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70. Jewish Neoplatonism | Dr. Sarah Pessin

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Sarah Pessin overflow with curiosity about the poetic philosophy of the Medieval Jewish Neoplatonists.

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69. American-Israeli Thought | Dr. Adam Ferziger

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Adam Ferziger crisscross the Atlantic to better understand the influence of American Orthodoxy on Israel, and vice versa.

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68. Yitzchak Hutner | Dr. Alon Shalev

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Alon Shalev discuss the iconoclastic ideas and character of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner.

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67. Natural Law and Judaism | Dr. David Novak

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. David Novak hike through the forest of Natural Law, and stop to examine some (Jewish) trees therein.

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66. Hasidei Ashkenaz | Talya Fishman

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Talya Fishman whip themselves up into a frenzy over the thought and influence of the pietists of the Medieval Rhineland.

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65. Heidegger and Kabbalah | Dr. Elliot Wolfson

Speakers: J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Elliot Wolfson are just two beings talking about being, time, and Jewish mysticism in the thought of Martin Heidegger. 

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