The Laws of Tsni'ut as a Translation of Legal Knowledge

Emmanuel Bloch researches how modern Jewish law responds to social evolutions, moral developments, and technological innovations. A former attorney, he now explores the halakhization of nonhalakhic norms, and will analyze tsni’ut (modesty) as a case study of this phenomenon while at the Katz Center.

Bloch received his PhD in Jewish philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a dissertation titled “Modesty: Halakhah, Meta-Halakhah, and Historical Development in the Twentieth Century.” He was previously a Robbins Research Fellow at the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at Berkeley Law School and an Associate Fellow in Jewish Studies at the Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham University.