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March 2022

From Jewish Self-Government to State Legislation: The Shai Takkanot (1650) and Maria Theresa’s Generalordnung for Moravia
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
From Jewish Self-Government to State Legislation: The Shai Takkanot (1650) and Maria Theresa’s Generalordnung for Moravia
Featuring: Louise Hecht, University of Potsdam
Legal Works in the Judeo-Arabic Milieu: Islamic Thought Embedded within Jewish Law
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Legal Works in the Judeo-Arabic Milieu: Islamic Thought Embedded within Jewish Law
Featuring: Zvi Stampfer, Orot Israel College
Legal Knowledge and Everyday Practice in Medieval Ashkenaz
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Legal Knowledge and Everyday Practice in Medieval Ashkenaz
Featuring: Elisheva Baumgarten, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Copyists, Collectors, and Curators: Stocking the Rabbinic Bookshelf
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Copyists, Collectors, and Curators: Stocking the Rabbinic Bookshelf
Featuring: Joshua Teplitsky, University of Pennsylvania
Designing the Daf: The Creation of the Talmud Page as We Know It
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Designing the Daf: The Creation of the Talmud Page as We Know It
Featuring: Edward Fram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Why Couldn’t Proselytes Serve on the Sanhedrin? Reconsidering the Status of Gerim as Framed by the Rabbis
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Why Couldn’t Proselytes Serve on the Sanhedrin? Reconsidering the Status of Gerim as Framed by the Rabbis
Featuring: Yael Wilfand, Bar-Ilan University

February 2022

Dreams of Spain: Old and New Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Dreams of Spain: Old and New Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Songs
Featuring: Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Transforming Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad’s Response to the "De-Jewing" of the Old Testament in Nazi Germany (A Case Study in the Social Location of Biblical Scholarship)
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Transforming Law into Gospel: Gerhard von Rad’s Response to the "De-Jewing" of the Old Testament in Nazi Germany (A Case Study in the Social Location of Biblical Scholarship)
Featuring: Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota
Grazia Pereira de Leon vs. Josef Gabai Villareal: Shedding Light on Legal Pluralism in 18th-Century Livorno
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Grazia Pereira de Leon vs. Josef Gabai Villareal: Shedding Light on Legal Pluralism in 18th-Century Livorno
Featuring: Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Sorbonne
The Oral Torah in Judeo-Arabic
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
The Oral Torah in Judeo-Arabic
Featuring: Marc Herman, York University, Toronto
Regulating without Control: Rabbinic Constructions of “Jewish” Territory in Roman Palestine
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Regulating without Control: Rabbinic Constructions of “Jewish” Territory in Roman Palestine
Featuring: Hanan Mazeh, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

January 2022

Resetting the Set Table (“Shulhan Arukh”)
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Resetting the Set Table (“Shulhan Arukh”)
Featuring: Alyssa M. Gray, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Time and Timing in the Maimonidean Dynasty’s Legal Decisions
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Time and Timing in the Maimonidean Dynasty’s Legal Decisions
Featuring: Menahem Ben-Sasson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph Karo’s Halakhic Revival of the Land of Israel: A Law-and-Literature Perspective
Monday, January 24, 2022
Joseph Karo’s Halakhic Revival of the Land of Israel: A Law-and-Literature Perspective
Featuring: Alyssa M. Gray, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
The Revolutionary Conservatism of the Mishneh Torah
Thursday, January 20, 2022
The Revolutionary Conservatism of the Mishneh Torah
Featuring: Eve Krakowski, Princeton University