History

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Were Both Temples Really Destroyed on the Same Day? The Meaning of History and Memory 

Rabbi Adam Mintz

Audio
Aug 13, 2024

Mourning Jewish History As We Live It

Dr. Rivka Press Schwartz

Audio
Aug 13, 2024

2 | Rabbinic Letters

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Welcome to a Jewish History Uncensored with Dr. Marc Shapiro. This season we are covering the story of Dr. Shapiro’s most recent book.–a collection of letters from some of the great Rabbinic figures of our day. The correspondences between Dr.…
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

40. The Tosafists

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel comment on the happenings in Medieval Ashkenaz and add their spin on to the era of the Tosafists.
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

38. Athens in Jerusalem

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Jacob Howland round up a storm of fascinating comparisons between Talmudic and Platonic methods of discourse. 
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

37. Wissenschaft des Judentums

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. David Myers scientifically examine the thought and legacy of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.   
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

36. The Talmud in Context

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Shai Secunda set Talmudic discourse ablaze. They put the Talmud in its Zoroastrian and Sasanian context, and have bloody good discussion about how Judaism interacted with its socio-religious environment in the first few centuries of the…
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

35. Jews & The Italian Renaissance

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Joanna Weinberg make their way back to sunny 15th century Italy and the surrounding centuries to visit some of the more interesting Jewish characters of the Italian Renaissance. They weave their way through cross-cultural influences and…
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

34. Josephus

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Martin Goodman go antiquing! They discuss the most important Jewish historian of the Roman period–Josephus Flavius. What did he write? Who was he writing for? And what ideological framework motivated his histories? 
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024

33. Abraham Geiger

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Susannah Heschel survey the fascinating life and brilliant ideas of Abraham Geiger. This guy was flagrantly influential. A practicing rabbi, a leader in the Wissenschaft das Judentums movement and a founder of Islamic studies in Europe…
Podcast
Aug 9, 2024