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 2011: MaxineGrossman, "What's the Use of 'Men' in Jewish Feminist Scholarship?"
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.”