Modern History

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Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 4) - An Accurate Machzor and a Misspelled Matzevah: The Story of Dr. Philip Birnbaum’s Prayer Books

Yosef Lindell

Audio
Feb 5, 2024

Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 3) - The Adler/Routledge Machzor: Prayer, Poetry, and a Transatlantic Battle of the Translators

Yosef Lindell

Audio
Jan 29, 2024

Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 2) - Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan’s Living Torah: How Literally Must One Translate the Chumash?

Yosef Lindell

Audio
Jan 22, 2024

e-TiM: The Mussar Dispute

Dr. Marc Shapiro

The Mussar Dispute Dr. Marc Shapiro Mondays, 8:30pm Eastern continuing, September, 9, 2024 The Mussar Movement, originated by R. Israel Salanter, was to have an enormous influence on the yeshiva world. Yet it also created great controversy. Why…
Program
Jan 15, 2024

Forgotten Synagogue Classics (Part 1) - A Modern Orthodox Chumash? The Hertz Pentateuch and its Polemics

Yosef Lindell

Audio
Jan 15, 2024

e-TiM: The Gates of Gaza

Shulie Mishkin

The Gates of Gaza Shulie Mishkin Wednesdays, 12:00pm Eastern, 7:00pm Israel time Class on Wednesday, February 14 is cancelled January 10 Introduction and Tanakh period January 17Second Temple Times - Twentieth Century: Jewish and Christian…
Program
Dec 18, 2023

18. The German Haskalah | Dr. Michah Gottlieb

Dr. Michah Gottleib

J.J. and Dr. Michah Gottlieb shed light on the origins of the Haskalah in Berlin, and examine Mendelssohn's role in it.
Podcast
Dec 18, 2023

14. Yiddish Literature | Dr. Ruth Wisse

J.J. Kimche, Ruth Wisse

J.J. and Dr. Ruth Wisse unpack the world or modern Yiddish literature from its beginnings with Rav Nachman of Breslov through Chaim Grade and the contemporary state of Yiddish studies. Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish literature and…
Podcast
Oct 12, 2023

9. Early Modern Judaism | Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg

J.J. Kimche, Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg

In this episode J.J. and Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg try to figure out what exactly we mean when we say "the Early Modern Period", also legal codes, and the scientific revolution. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg is Assistant Professor of Jewish History.…
Podcast
Aug 3, 2023

6. Herzl's Ideas | Dr. Derek Penslar

J.J. Kimche, Derek Penslar

In this episode J.J. and Dr. Derek Penslar get into the evolution of Zionism, and the ideas (or lack of ideas) of Theodore Herzl. Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History. He takes a comparative and transnational approach…
Podcast
Jun 22, 2023