Between the Lines: The Kabbalistic Tree
Mar 29, 2023 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
The Kabbalistic Tree, by J.H. Chajes, is the first book to explore the esoteric artifacts at the heart of Jewish mystical practice for the past 700 years:ilanot(trees). Melding maps, mandalas, and mnemonic memory palaces,ilanotprovided kabbalists with diagrammatic representation of their structured image of the Divine. Scrolling anilanparchment in contemplative study, the kabbalist participated mimetically intikkun,the […]
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Between the Lines: Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy
Mar 14, 2023 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
SHANDA: A MEMOIR OF SHAME AND SECRECY Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of 91快播 The word 鈥渟handa鈥� is defined as shame or disgrace in Yiddish. This book, Shanda, tells the story of three generations of complicated, intense 20th-century Jews for whom the desire to fit in and the fear of public […]
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Between the Lines: Sephardic Food and Culture
Mar 8, 2023 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
Dr. H茅l猫ne Jawhara Pi帽er and Dr. Benjamin Gampel discuss how the mass conversion of Iberian Jews in the late 14th and 15th centuries, initially triggered by the anti-Jewish riots that swept Castile and Aragon in 1391, led to distinctive and identifiable food and eating practices among those Jews who were compelled to embrace the Christian faith.
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Between the Lines: We Are Not One
Feb 7, 2023 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
滨苍听We Are Not One, historian Eric Alterman traces the debate about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, from its 19th-century origins. Following Israel鈥檚 1948/49 War of Independence (called the Nakba or 鈥渃atastrophe鈥� by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six Day War, however, almost overnight, support for Israel becametheprimary component of American Jews鈥� collective identity.Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel鈥檚 image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and on college campuses. We Are Not Onerevealshow our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing.
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Between the Lines: The Stories They Tell
Dec 13, 2022 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
Dr. Judith Hauptman upends the long-held theory of the immutability of halakhah, Jewish law. In her detailed analysis of over 80 short halakhic anecdotes in the Babylonian Talmud, she shows that the Talmud itself promotes halakhic change. She leads the reader through onesugya(discussion unit) after another, accumulating evidence for her rather radical thesis. Along the […]
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Between the Lines: The Object of Jewish Literature
Dec 5, 2022 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
THE OBJECT OF JEWISH LITERATURE: A MATERIAL HISTORY 91快播 Professor Barbara E. Mann discusses her latest book, The Object of Jewish Literature, a history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object. With the rise of digital media, the 鈥渄eath of the book鈥� has been widely discussed. But the physical object […]
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Between the Lines: Choosing Hope
Nov 14, 2022 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
Throughout our history, Jews have traditionally responded to our trials with hope, psychologist David Arnow says, because we have had ready access to Judaism鈥檚 abundant reservoir of hope.The first book to explore the depths of this reservoir,Choosing Hopejourneys from biblical times to our day to explore nine fundamental sources of hope in Judaism.
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Between the Lines: Inside Jewish Day Schools
Oct 27, 2022 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
Part of Between the Lines: Author Conversations from The Library of 91快播 Dr. Jack Wertheimer, professor of American Jewish history at 91快播, co-authored with Alex Pomson the new book Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community, which seeks to demystify Jewish day schools. His book talk addresses a number of questions: What revolutionary changes characterize current […]
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