Klingenstein Lectures

The Judaic Studies Program at New College welcomes you to the Klingenstein Lecture series.

MIRA BETH WASSERMAN, "#MeToo, the Talmud, and the Ethics of Accountability," January 17, 2023 5:30 p.m. in Sainer Auditorium

Lectures are sponsored by New College of Florida, The Klingenstein Chair of Judaic Studies, The Jay Rudolph Endowment, and New Topics New College.

Earlier Talks:

March 2022: Sarah Imhoff, "A Queer Zionism: Jessie Sampter and the Paradoxes of Jewish Nationalism”

January 2019: Gregg Gardner, "Excavating the Foundations of Charity in Classical Jewish Texts"

January 2018: Nicola Denzey Lewis, "Rethinking the Jewish Catacombs."

January 2017: Rachel Neis, “Humans, Animals, and Hybrids in Rabbinic Reproductive Thought.”

September 2016 : Tayla Fishman, " How did Jews Become the People of the Talmud?: The Metamorphosis of Oral Torah in Medieval Europe."

January 2015: Jonathan Klawans, "The Masada Story: Martyrs, Murders, and Myths."

January 2013: Cynthia Baker, "The Essentially Ambiguous Jewess: Exploring Images of

Jewish Women through the Centuries"

January 2012: Jordan D. Rosenblum, "Jewish Foodways: Ancient and Modern"

January 2010: David Frankfurter, "Exorcism and Demons in Early Judaism"

January 2009: Nora Rubel, “Gefilte Fish in the Gilded Age: Jewish Women’s Activism and the Settlement Cookbook.”

January 2008: Jodi Magness, "The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls."

January 2007: David Stern, "Through the Pages of the Past: The Jewish Book in its Historical Context."

January 2005: Ross Kraemer, “Searching for (Jewish?) Women in Greco-Roman Narratives: Or When is a Text about a Woman a Text about a Woman.”

January 2004: John Marshall, "Reading Judaism while Reading Revelation: New Perspectives on the Diaspora.”