History

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e-TiM: Karaism: The Other Judaism

Dr. Daniel J. Lasker

This three-part series will take place on Thursdays at 10:30am Eastern (5:30pm in Israel) from June 9 to June 23. Most people who have heard of Karaism know very little about it and what they know is often incorrect. Although the name Karaism is…
Program
May 31, 2022

The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 3) - Early Print as a Hidden Archive: Tracing Footprints in Jewish books

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Audio
May 17, 2022

The Meaning of Torah in Early Judaism (Part 3) - The Expanded Torah

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Audio
May 17, 2022

The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 2) - Reading Deeper in Manuscript and Print: Paratexts and the Jewish Past

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Audio
May 10, 2022

The Meaning of Torah in Early Judaism (Part 2) - The Translated Torah

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Audio
May 10, 2022

The People In, Of, and Around the Book_ How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 1) - History and Society in Scraps and Fragments: the Cairo (and other) Geniza(s)

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Audio
May 3, 2022

The Meaning of Torah in Early Judaism (Part 1) - The Written Torah

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Audio
May 3, 2022

e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

Michelle Margolis Chesner

This three-part series will take place on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern from May 3-18. What does it mean to be the People of the Book? Texts have been essential to the Jewish people  for millennia. The material, books, and scrolls in which these texts…
Program
Apr 5, 2022

e-TiM: The Meaning of Torah in Early Judaism

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

This three-part series will take place on Tuesdays at 2:00pm Eastern, 1:00pm Central, 9:00pm in Israel This course will explore the ways in which the concept of Torah developed among Jews in the ancient world. We will begin by exploring the…
Program
Apr 4, 2022

The Jews of Ancient Egypt (Part 4) - Relations Between Judean Jews and Egyptian Jews

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

Audio
Feb 17, 2022