The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

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  • A space for exploring the great ideas at the heart of the Jewish tradition.
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  • 38. Athens in Jerusalem | Dr. Jacob Howland

    38. Athens in Jerusalem | Dr. Jacob Howland
    Jul 18 2024
    J.J. and Dr. Jacob Howland round up a storm of fascinating comparisons between Talmudic and Platonic methods of discourse.

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    Jacob Howland is Provost and Dean of the Intellectual Foundations Program at the University of Austin. He is the author of five books on Plato, Kierkegaard, and the Talmud. His articles have appeared in The New Criterion, Commentary, Newsweek, the Claremont Review of Books, the Jewish Review of Books, City Journal, Mosaic, Tablet, the New York Post, UnHerd, Quillette, Forbes, and The Nation, among other venues.
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    56 mins
  • 37. Wissenschaft des Judentums | Dr. David Myers

    37. Wissenschaft des Judentums | Dr. David Myers
    Jul 11 2024
    J.J. and Dr. David Myers scientifically examine the thought and legacy of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.


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    David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn
    Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for
    History and Policy. He also directs the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of
    more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including, with Nomi Stolzenberg, American
    Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), which
    was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 36. The Talmud in Context | Dr. Shai Secunda

    36. The Talmud in Context | Dr. Shai Secunda
    Jul 4 2024
    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 Common Era.

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    Dr. Secunda is a religious studies scholar who has taught at universities in Israel and the United States, including the Hebrew University and Yale University, where he was the Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow. He previously served as a member of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and lecturer in the university’s comparative religion and Hebrew literature departments. His academic interests range from rabbinic and Middle Persian literature to classical Jewish history, the Babylonian Talmud in its Sasanian context, Zoroastrianism, and critical approaches to the study of religion, including gender and religion.

    Professor Secunda is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Its Sasanian Context (2014) and The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and Its Sasanian Context (forthcoming with Oxford University Press); and editor of Shoshannat Yaakov: Jewish and Iranian Studies in Honor of Yaakov Elman (with Steven Fine, 2012) and Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon: Scholarly Conversations between Jews, Iranians, and Babylonians in Antiquity (with Uri Gabbay, 2014). He has also contributed book chapters to the Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism, and Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism. He is a member of the Association of Jewish Studies and the International Society of Iranian Studies. Professor Secunda has taught at Bard since 2016.
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    1 hr and 1 min
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