The Rishonim Podcast

Acknowledgements: 

I rely heavily on free internet resources for my Torah learning, and want to especially recognize the databases HebrewBooks.org, alhaTorah.org, Otzar Hachachmah (and its forum), and the audio websites ShasIlluminated, YUTorah, TorahDownloads, Torah Anytime, and Kol Halashon. Thank you!!!

Thank you also to libraries everywhere, but particularly the Mendel Gottesman Library of Yeshiva University and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University. 

Theme music: “La Quinte Estampie Real,” from a recording available at musopen.org

Cover art: “The Brother Haggadah,” The British Library, Oriental 1404 folio 9v

General Sources (see show notes for each episode's bibliography):

Binyamin Ze'ev Beinart. (1958). Atlas Karta Letoldot Am Yisrael Beyamei Habenayim. Jerusalem: Kiryat Sefer Publishing House.

Goldwurm, H. (1982). The Rishonim. ArtScroll Mesorah Publications.

Sirat, C. (1985). A history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press.

Ta-Shema, I. (1995). Safrut haRabbanit (Vol. 1-2). Magnes Press.

Ta-Shema, I. (2006). Knesset Mehkarim (Vol. 1-4). Magnes Press.

Schweid, E. (2008). The Classic Jewish Philosophers: From Saadia Through the Renaissance. Brill

Jospe, R. (2009) Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Academic Studies Press

Fishman, T. (2011). Becoming the people of the Talmud: Oral Torah as written tradition in medieval Jewish cultures. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Soloveitchik, H. (2013). Collected writings (Vol. 1-3). Littman Library of Jewish Civilization.

Shilat, Y. (2017). Al Harishonim. Ma'ale Adummim.

Chazan, R. (Ed.). (2018). The Cambridge history of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian world. Cambridge University Press.

Lieberman, P. (Ed.). (2021). The Cambridge history of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World. Cambridge University Press.