Seforimchatter
By Nachi Weinstein
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The Seforimchatter podcast is dedicated to the discussion of Seforim (holy texts and works pertaining to them), Jewish (non-sacred) Books, Jewish History and more. The variety of guests include rabbis, professors, historians, authors, editors, and others in the field. For more information or to sponsor a show, check out seforimchatter.com or email info@seforimchatter.com
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With R' Eli Simcha Hellmann discussing Rav Juspa Schammes (1604 - 1698) and his newly published Haggadah
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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With R' Yisroel Cohen discussing Mitzrayim (Egypt), Midrash, and Myth
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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With Dr. Susan Weingarten discussing the history of Charoses
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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AuctionChatter: With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Taj Art Auction 13 Catalogue
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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With Prof. Hillel Kieval discussing Blood Libels & Ritual Murder Trials at the turn of the 20th century
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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With R' Moshe Baruch Kaufman discussing Rav Aryeh Leib Lipkin (1839 - 1903) and his Sefer Ohr HaYom on Zmanim
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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With Rabbi Michael Taubes & Rabbi Josh Flug discussing the new Batei Yosef series on Moadim: Torah of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik and other YU Roshei Yeshiva
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Matmonim Auction 4 Catalogue
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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With Rabbi Dovid Schoonmaker discussing how to retain your learning and his new book on the subject
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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With Prof. Jordan Penkower discussing the history of printed Rashi on Tanach
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Genazym Auction 17 catalogue
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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With Michoel Rotenfeld discussing the autobiography of Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn (1848 - 1930)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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TLT Series Episode 8: Prof. Alan Verskin - David Reueveni (16th century): Imposter or brother of the King of the Lost Tribes?
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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TLT Series Episode 7: Dr. Moti Benmelech - The Ten Lost Tribes in Jewish Consciousness in the 15th & 16th Centuries
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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With Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar & Avishai Shraga discussing Chacham David Sasson Rabban of Hamedan, Iran and his writings (1879 - 1974)
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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TLT Series Epiosde 6: Keagan Brewer - The Christian Legend of Prester John
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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TLT Series Episode 5: Prof. Rebekka Voß - The Red Jews and Ma'aseh Akdamus
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing Baalei Tosafos Al Hatorah: An Overview
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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TLT Series Episode 4: Dr. Micha Perry - Eldad HaDani (9th century): From the tribe of Dan?
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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TLT Series Episode 3: Dr. Daniel Stein-Kokin - The Legendary Sambatyon River
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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TLT Series Episode 2: R' Fishel Mael - The Twelve Tribes from a Torah perspective
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Taj Art Auction 11 catalogue
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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TLT (Ten Lost Tribes) Series Episode 1: Prof. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite - The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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With R' Yechiel Goldhaber discussing the history of playing games and dreidel on Chanukah
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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With Prof. Steven Fine discussing the history of the Menorah
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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With Rabbi Yanki Tauber discussing his new translated and annotated Chumash project and volume 1:The Book of Genesis with Commentary and Insights from 500 Sages and Mystics
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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With Prof. Edwin Seroussi discussing Rav Yisrael Najara (1555 - 1625): Gaza's most famous Rabbi, Poet, and Preacher
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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With Rav Aron Lopiansky discussing Taamei HaMikra, Targum Onkelos, and his new Sefer on the topic
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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With Prof. Gershon David Hundert A'H discussing Ber (Birkenthal) of Bolechów's (1723 - 1805) memoirs
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 19: Genie Milgrom - A modern day Converso story
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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With Rav Immanuel Bernstein discussing Rav Yehuda Copperman ZT'L and Pshuto Shel Mikra
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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With Yehuda Geberer & Dovi Safier discussing Rav Yonah Minsker, Memoirs, and more
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 18: Prof. Marc Shapiro - Was there a "Cherem" (ban) to live in Spain?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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With Prof. Dana Fishkin discussing Immanuel of Rome (14th century) and his works
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 17: Prof. Ronnie Perelis - Autobiographical narratives of Conversos in the Americas
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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With R' Reuven Chaim Klein discussing Lashon HaKodesh and his book on the topic
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Epiosde 16: Prof. Ana Schaposchnik - The Spanish Inquisition in South America (Lima, Peru)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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With Prof. Joseph Sassoon discussing the rise and fall of the Sassoon family
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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With David Curwin discussing Koheles and its connection to Bereishis
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Siddur Otzar HaTefillos and his project to redo the Siddur
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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With Mitchell First discussing Aleinu and its history
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 15: Prof. Matt Goldish - Rabbinic responsa throughout the Sephardic diaspora
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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With Sammy Oziel discussing Moroccan (French [Toshavim] & Spanish [Megurashim]) Nusach HaTefillah and his new editions of Moroccan Siddurim
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 14: Prof. David Graizbord - Conversos
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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With Rav Dovid Sackton discussing Rav Yitzchak Canpanton's Sefer Darkei HaGemara (HaTalmud) and his new edition
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 13: Prof. Francois Soyer - The Expulsion and forced conversion of the Jews in Portugal, 1497
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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With Seth Stern discussing Holocaust survivors raising chickens in New Jersey and his new book on the topic
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 12: Prof. Jonathan Ray - The Expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492 and its aftereffects
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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With Prof. Andrew Berns discussing the commentaries of Rav Yitzchak Arama (Akedas Yitzchak), Rav Yitzchak Abarbanel, and Rav Avraham Saba (Tzeror Hamor)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 11: Prof. Gretchen Starr-LeBeau - The Inquisition in Guadalupe, Spain
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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With Dr. David Sclar discussing the Rambam exhibit at the YU Museum & accompanying volume
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 10: Prof. Richard Kagan - Autobiographical tales from the Inquisition
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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With R' Doniel Hexter discussing letters of consolation from Gedolei Yisroel
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 9: With Prof. Lu Ann Homza - The Spanish Inquisition: An overview
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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With Prof. Jodi Magness discussing the history of Masada
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 8: Prof. Benjamin Gampel - The Spanish Riots of 1391 in the Kingdom of Aragon
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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With R' Yitzchak Stroh discussing Rav Shlomo Ganzfried (1804 - 1886)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 7: Prof. Maya Soifer Irish - The Spanish riots of 1391 in the Kingdom of Castile
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Bonus episode: Live with R' Moshe Maimon discussing various antique seforim, manuscripts, and letters
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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With Prof. John Hosler discussing Jerusalem from the 7th to 13th centuries
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 6: Prof. Paola Tartakoff - The Papal Inquisition in Spain
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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With Prof. Yitzhak Melamed discussing Solomon Maimon (1753 - 1800) and the new edition of his autobiography
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 5: Prof. Sarah Ifft Decker - Jewish Women of Medieval Catalonia
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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With Yehuda Esral discussing Sefer Zikaron Pnei Moshe and its contents (including a fascinating Gittin controversy from Atlanta in 1914)
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Live from Lakewood: "Kevarimchatter" with Dovi Safier and Yossel Housman (a/k/a R' Yosef Shaul Hoizman)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 4: Prof. Marc Herman - The great Talmudic and Halachic Scholars of Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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With R' Zvi Davidson discussing Rav Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879 - 1966) and his Seforim
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 3: With Prof. Ross Brann - The Greatness of Sephardi Culture, 950-1200: Religious and Secular Poetry in Medieval Muslim Spain and its great Jewish Figures
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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With Prof. Susan Einbinder discussing the Great Italian Plague of 1630-31 and the Jewish responses
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 2: With Prof. Benjamin Gampel - Broad themes and questions related to Spanish Jewry
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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With Elie Feder discussing Gematria Refigured - a new look at Gematria and his new book on the topic
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 1: With Prof. Jonathan Ray - Overview of the history of Spanish Jewry from its establishment until the 14th century
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May 31, 2023 |
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With Prof. Adam Mendelsohn discussing Jewish Soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil War
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May 28, 2023 |
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With Rav Aaron Lopianksy discussing Sefer Nachlas Yosef on Megillas Rus and the English adaptation, "Seed of Redemption"
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May 21, 2023 |
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Live from Prague (feat. special guests Yehuda Geberer & Dovi Safier)
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May 18, 2023 |
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With Aaron Friedman discussing Sefer Pnei Avraham on Shas and the story of how his father saved the manuscript after the holocaust
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May 14, 2023 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Rosh (Rabeinu Asher b. Yechiel, 1250 - 1327)
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May 07, 2023 |
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With Rav Shnayor Burton discussing the mitzvah to reside in Eretz Yisrael and his new Sefer on the topic
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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With Prof. David Kertzer discussing Pope Pius XII and his relationship with Mussolini and Hitler and his silence regarding the Jews during the Holocaust
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Legacy Judaica auction 11 catalogue
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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With Dr. Akiva Sternberg discussing Halachic challenges with the early Jewish immigration to America (1850 - 1924)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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With Prof. Ronnie Hsia discussing the ritual murder trial (blood libel) of Trent in 1475
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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With Rabbi Isaac Rice discussing the Haggadah Shel Pesach and the foundations of running a Seder
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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With Rav Yehoshua Hartman discussing the Maharal's Shabbos HaGadol Derasha
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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With R' Moshe Hubner discussing his English adaptation of Minchas Chinuch on Pesach
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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With R' Eliyahu Simcha Hellmann discussing Rav Yitzchak Dov Bamberger - The Wurzburger Rav (1807 - 1878) - and Kollel Achsanya Shel Torah
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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With R' Shimon Szimonowitz discussing Sefer Igros Sofrim: The Letters of the Eiger - Sofer families
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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With Dr. Zev Eleff discussing the history of the Purim Shpiel (in America)
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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With R' Elimelech Zweibel discussing Sefer Eim Labinah of Rav Yaakov Emden
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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With Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten discussing Jewish daily life in the Middle Ages
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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With R' Dovid Silverman discussing Sefer Matamei Yitzchak & the story behind the manuscript
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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With Prof. Yossi Chajes discussing Kabbalistic Trees (האילן הקבלי)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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With Prof. Daniel Schwartz discussing the history of the (word) Ghetto
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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With Prof. Matt Goldish discussing Chacham David Nieto (1654 - 1728)
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Rav Dovid HaNaggid & his commentary on Parshas Vaera
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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With Rabbi Yehoshua Lifschitz discussing the various Seforim that he wrote & edited (Sifrei Meir Panim)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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With Prof. Emily Michelson discussing Catholic Preaching to Jews in Rome
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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With Prof. Jessica Marglin discussing Nissim Shamama (d. 1873) and the legal battle over his fortune
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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With Prof. Steven Bowman discussing Sefer Yosippon and his new English translation
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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With Prof. Edward Fram discussing the codification of Jewish law in the 16th century and Rav Yosef Karo, Rav Shlomo Luria (Maharshal), and Rav Moshe Isserles (Rema)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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With Prof. Francesca Trivellato discussing the myth that Jews invented Bills of Exchange (Credit)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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With Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD discussing his new book, The Anatomy of Jewish Law, on the topic of Medicine, Medical History, and Rabbinic Literature
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Rabeinu Avraham Ben Harambam (1186 - 1237); Life and Works
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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With Dr. Yakov Mayer discussing the first edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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With Roy Shasha discussing Chacham Shemtob Gaguine (1884 - 1953) and his Seforim
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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With Prof. Aviva Ben-Ur discussing the Jews of Suriname
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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With Daniel Klein discussing Shadal (Shmuel/Samuel David Luzzatto) and his Sefer "Ohev Ger" on Targum Onkelos
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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With R' Moshe Parnes discussing the Mitzvah of Hakhel and his new Sefer on the topic
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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With Prof. Joshua Teplitsky, Prof. Debra Kaplan, and Dr. Zev Eleff discussing the Esrog and the new volume, "Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History"
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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With Rabbi Bentzion Ettlinger discussing the Shofar: The Halachos, Minhagim, and his new English Sefer about it
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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With Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter discussing Selichos and his new edition of Selichos with introduction and commentary
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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With Michelle Margolis and Sharon Liberman Mintz discussing the Jews of Corfu
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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With R' Mendy Abramson discussing Bathing and Showering in Halachah and his new English Sefer on the topic
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Chida and Maagel Tov (the Chida's travelogue)
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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With David Arnovitz discussing The Tanakh of the Land of Israel
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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With Dr. Morris Faierstein discussing the Yudisher Theriak (A Yiddish Defense of Judaism)
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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The Judean Revolt Series with Prof. Guy M. Rogers: The Great Jewish Revolt, 66 - 74 CE and the destruction of the Second Temple. Part III: Masada and the Legacies of the Great Revolt
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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The Judean Revolt Series with Prof. Guy M. Rogers: The Great Jewish Revolt, 66 - 74 CE and the destruction of the Second Temple. Part II: The War and Destruction of the Temple.
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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With R' Yaakov Beer discussing Sefer B'Ikvei HaGalus about the Churban
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing 1096 (The First Crusade) and the Jews
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Judean Revolt Series with Prof. Guy M. Rogers: The Great Jewish Revolt, 66-74 CE and the destruction of the Second Temple. Part I: Causes of conflict
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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With R' Aryeh Ganz and R' Shimon Szimonowitz discussing Sefer Arzei HaLevanon Al Hatorah
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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With Rabbi Yaakov Taubes discussing Rabeinu Bachya and his writings
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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With Dr. Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky discussing the history of Lithuanian Yeshivas and his new book on the topic
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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With Prof. Kenneth Stow discussing the Diary of Anna of Rome and the book he wrote about the diary
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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With Dr. Tzafrir Barzilay discussing well poisoning accusations against Jews and minorities in Medieval Europe (relating to the Black Death)
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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With R' Yaakov Yosef Reinman (AKA Avner Gold) discussing his historical fiction book series ("The Strasbourg saga")
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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With Dr. Yael Ziegler discussing Megillas Rus and her book, "Ruth: From Alienation to Monarchy"
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May 29, 2022 |
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With Prof. Rachel Manekin discussing Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia and her book on the topic
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May 22, 2022 |
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With Rabbanit Chana Henkin discussing her son Rav Eitam Z'L HY'D, his writings, and the new English collection just published, "Studies in Halakha and Rabbinic History"
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May 15, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 15: Finale episode with Prof. Matt Goldish
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May 11, 2022 |
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With Zev Bar-Eitan discussing his English series, "Abravanel's World of Torah"
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May 08, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 14: With Dr. David Sclar discussing the Ramchal controversy
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May 04, 2022 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner discussing Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
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May 01, 2022 |
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With Dr. Alan Kadish & Rabbi Dr. Michael Shmidman discussing their new book, "The Jewish Intellectual Tradition"
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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With R' Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer discussing the forged Yerushalmi on Kodashim
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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With Elie Rosenfeld discussing the Maxwell House Haggadah
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Hilchos Mechiras Chametz and his English Sefer on the topic
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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With Prof. Daniel J. Lasker discussing the history of Karaism and his new book on the topic
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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With Dr. Rebecca Jefferson discussing the discovery, origins, and history of the Cairo Genizah and her new book about the topic
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 13: With Prof. Elisheva Carlebach discussing Rav Moshe Chagiz (1671 - 1751)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Piyut "Mi Komocha" of Rav Yehuda HaLevi
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Ohr Zarua (Rav Yitzchak of Vienna, 1180 - 1250)
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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With Rav Doniel Neustadt discussing Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky's Seforim
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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With Prof. Yochanan Petrovsky-Shtern discussing the Russians' war against Ukraine: The stakes for the Jews
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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With Prof. Jeffrey Woolf discussing the Maharik (Rav Yosef Colon Trabotto, 1420 - 1480)
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 12: With Bezalel Naor discussing Post-Sabbatean Sabbateanism
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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With Dr. Dov Zakheim discussing Rebbe (Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi)
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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With Prof. Edward Fram discussing the Court Diaries of Rabbi Chayim Gundersheim of Frankfurt Am Main, 1773 - 1794
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 11: With Prof. Pawel Maciejko discussing Jacob Frank and the Frankist movement
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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With R' Pinchas Werner discussing his Sefer, "Keitzad Seder Mishna"
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 10: With Prof. Cengiz Sisman discussing the Dönme
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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With Prof. Glenn Dynner discussing Jewish Tavernkeepers & the Liquor trade in the Kingdom of Poland
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 9: With R’ Yechiel Goldhaber discussing Sefer Chemdas Yamim
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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With Eli Rubin discussing Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson of Lubavitch ("Maharash," 1834 - 1882)
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 8: With Prof. Boaz Huss discussing the Sabbatean origins of Tu B'Shvat
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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With Prof. Rena Lauer discussing the Jews of (Venetian) Crete
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 7: With Prof. Adam Teller discussing the impact of Tach V'Tat upon Sabbateanism
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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With R' Manes Blumenfrucht discussing the Kosher Milk Controversy of America and his new Sefer Chalav Treifah
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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SZ Series Episode 6: With Prof. Alexander van der Haven discussing Sarah Ashkenazi
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Yehuda Keilson discussing the Derashos HaRan
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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SZ Series Episode 5: With Prof. Matt Goldish part 2: Discussing post-conversion and death of SZ
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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With Prof. David Fraser discussing Anti-Shechita Prosecutions between 1855 - 1913 and his book on the subject
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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SZ Series Episode 4: With Prof. David J. Halperin discussing Abraham Miguel Cardozo
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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With Prof. Emile Schrijver discussing Jewish Book Culture
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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SZ Series Episode 3: With Prof. Yaacob Dweck discussing Rabbi Yaakov Sasportas
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Basil Herring discussing the new RCA Siddur
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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SZ Series Episode 2: With Avinoam Stillman discussing Nathan of Gaza
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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With Prof. Malka Simkovich discussing Chanukah & the classic sources
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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SZ Series Episode 1: With Prof. Matt Goldish discussing Sabbatai Zevi's life and impact until the conversion
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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With Prof. Francesca Trivellato discussing the Jews of Livorno (Leghorn), Italy
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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With R' Shimon Szimonowitz & R' Yaakov Juravel discussing Machon Aleh Zayis & Sefer Mincha Ketana
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Dr. Moshe Sokol discussing his new book, "The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave: Exploring Talmudic Narratives", which explores aggadata and related themes
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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With Dr. Moti Benmelech discussing Shlomo Molcho (1501 - 1532)
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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With Rabbi David Fohrman discussing his work at Aleph Beta and his "Parsha Companion" series
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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With Prof. Maoz Kahana discussing Religion and Science in Early Modern Rabbinic Culture & his new book on the topic ("A Heartless Chicken")
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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With Dr. Ezra Chwat discussing the Rif (Rav Yitzchak Alfasi, 1013 - 1103) and his new critical edition
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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With R' Alex Hool discussing the masa'os (travels) of the Bnei Yisrael in the Midbar and his new book about it, "The Desert Encampments: From Sinai to the Holy Land"
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Pinchas Taylor discussing Judaism & the Mysterious (and his book on the subject)
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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With R' Moshe Flohr discussing Sefer Bikurei Yaakov on Hilchos Sukkah & Lulav
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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With Prof. Shmuel Feiner discussing European Jewry in the 18th Century
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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With R' Yechiel Goldhaber discussing the minhag of covering the shofar while making the beracha
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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With Rav Aaron Lopiansky discussing his new Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur Machzorim
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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With Prof. Andrew Porwancher discussing Alexander Hamilton and his Jewish origins and connections
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Shnayor Burton discussing the Mitzvah of living in E'Y and his podcast series about it
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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With Rabbi H. Norman Strickman discussing his new translation of Yesod Moreh of the Ibn Ezra and the Ibn Ezra in general
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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With Dr. Jeremy Brown discussing Copernicus, the Heliocentric model, and its Jewish reception
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Genazym Auction 10 Catalogue
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Mordechai (R. Mordechai b. Hillel, d. 1298)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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With Dr. Yael Ziegler discussing her new book on Megillas Eichah, "Lamentations: Faith in a Turbulent World"
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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With Prof. Robert Chazan discussing the Trial of the Talmud in Paris in 1240
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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With Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman discussing Josephus
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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With Dr. David Sclar discussing Ramchal (Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, 1707 - 1746)
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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With R' Meni Even-Israel discussing his father, Rav Adin Steinsaltz & his various Seforim
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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With Prof. Neil Netanel discussing the history of Jewish Copyright Law.
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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With R' Daniel Levin discussing Rav Chasdai Crescas & Ohr Hashem
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May 30, 2021 |
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With Prof. Naomi Seidman discussing Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov
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May 23, 2021 |
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With R' Yehuda Rock discussing the new Sefer, "Parshanei HaMikra" of his wife, Rabbanit Dr. Avigail Rock Z'L
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May 19, 2021 |
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With R' Moshe Kravetz and Dr. Allan Jacob discussing their new Sefer, "Emunei Am Segulah" about Ma'amad Har Sinai & Kabbolas HaTorah
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May 09, 2021 |
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With Prof. Jeffrey Gurock discussing the Jews of Harlem
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May 02, 2021 |
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With Prof. Debra Kaplan discussing Charity and the Poor in Early Modern Germany (Worms, Frankfurt, AH"U: Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck)
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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With Prof. David Berger discussing Jewish - Christian debate in the Middle Ages
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Daf Yomi: With R' Moshe Schwed of AllDaf discussing various Seforim & Meforshim on Mesechtas Yoma
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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With Prof. Martin Lockshin discussing Rashbam
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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With Pearl Herzog discussing her father, R' Tovia Preschel, and his collected writings that she published (Ma'amarei Tovia)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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With Dr. Pinchas Roth discussing Medieval Jewry of Provence
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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One year anniversary episode: About how the twitter account and podcast developed
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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With Prof. Shalom Sabar discussing the Sarajevo Haggadah
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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With Prof. Benny Brown discussing the Mussar Movement
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Netanel Wiederblank discussing his "Illuminating Jewish Thought" book series
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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With Prof. Yerachmiel (Robert) Brody discussing the Geonim
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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With R' Dovid Cohen of the cRc discussing his new book, "Alcoholic Beverages: The Halachos of alcoholic beverages, wine, and grape juice as they apply in the modern era arranged according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch"
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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With Mitchell First discussing who Achashverosh & Esther were historically, and the origins of Ta'anis Esther
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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With Dr. Gabriel Wasserman discussing Piyutei Arbah Parshiyos ("Yotzros"), Krovetz for Purim, and Piyutim in general
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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With Prof. Cedric Cohen-Skalli discussing Abarbnel (1437 - 1508) and his new book, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography"
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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With Rabbi Elchanan Adler discussing Anim Zemiros
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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With Rav Yehoshua Hartman discussing the Maharal of Prague ( 1512[24] - 1609) and his edition of Sifrei Maharal
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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With Prof. Elisheva Carlebach discussing Pinkassei Kehillot of pre-modern Europe
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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With R' Nechemya Sheinfeld discussing the Ibn Ezra and his commentary on the Ibn Ezra, "Daas Ezra"
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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With Prof. Marcin Wodziński discussing his various books on Chasidus and Historical Atlas of Hasidism
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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With Daniel Klein discussing Shadal (Samuel David Luzzatto, 1800 - 1865) and his new translation of Shadal on Chumash
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing Rashi on Shas
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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With Rav Aaron Lopiansky discussing his (Hebrew) Seforim & Rishonim
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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With Dr. Martina Mampieri discussing Pope Paul IV and the Jews in the 16th Century, and her book, "Living under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Nehemiah ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th cent.)"
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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With R' Simcha Lauer discussing his book, " Learning the News: Halachic Perspectives on Current Events"
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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With R' Alex Hool discussing his new book, "Pharaoh: Biblical History, Egypt, And the Missing Millennium" (about the biblical Pharaoh)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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With Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman discussing Chanukah & its historical sources
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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With R' Moshe Kravetz discussing the Sforno (Rav Ovadiah Sforno, 1475 - 1550)
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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With Prof. Joseph Davis discussing the Tosfos Yom Tov (Rav Yom Tov Lipmann Heller ZT'L)
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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With Dr. Steve Weiss discussing Pirkei Avos and his Bibliography of it
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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With Prof. Joanna Weinberg discussing Azariah De' Rossi & Me'or Enayim
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Daf Yomi: Discussing various seforim on Mesechtas Pesachim
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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With Prof. Clémence Boulouqe discussing Rav Eliyahu Benamozegh
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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With Prof. Pawel Maciejko discussing Rav Yonason Eybeschutz and the "Emden - Eybeschutz" controversy.
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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With Prof. Steven Nadler discussing Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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With Dr. Morris Faierstein discussing the Ze'enah U-Re'enah and his new English translation
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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With Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein discussing his book, "God versus gods: Judaism in the age of Idolatry"
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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With Rabbi Mordechai Lebhar discussing Machon Magen Avot
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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With Prof. Sara Reguer discussing her grandfather, Rav Simcha Zelig ZT'L, and her father's memoir that she published
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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With Rabbi Yosie Levine discussing the Chacham Tzvi
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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With Dan Rabinowitz discussing his book, "The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna's Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust"
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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With Prof. Howard (Tzvi) Adelman discussing Rav Yehuda Aryeh Modena
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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With Yehuda Geberer of the Jewish History Soundbites Podcast
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Shailos U'Teshuvos Torah Lishmah: Did the puported author Rav Yechezkel Kuchli exist or was it truly written by the Ben Ish Chai?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Solo Show discussing a few new Seforim
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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With R' Zecharia Holzer of Machon Al Harishonim discussing his Rosh Hashanah Machzor with Pirushei Rishonim
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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With Prof. Eve Krakowski discussing the Cairo Geniza
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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With Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel discussing the Baalei Tosafos
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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With Prof. Magda Teter discussing her new book, "Blood Libel: On The Trail Of An Antisemitic Myth"
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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With Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman discussing the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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With R' Yossel Housman on the history and background of the Tisha B'av Kinnos
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing his new edition of the writings of Rabeinu Avraham Ben HaRambam
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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With Elli Fischer discussing Translation, Rav Eliezer Melamed, Peninei Halakha and more
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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With Rav Shnayor Burton discussing classics of emunah & hashkafa, Tanach and more
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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With Prof. Adam Teller discussing his new book on the Khmelnytsky massacres (Tach-V'Tat) and the refugee crisis that followed
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Introduction Show
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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With Prof. Michah Gottlieb of NYU discussing the Biur, Mendelssohn, Rav Hirsch and more
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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With Prof. Joshua Teplitsky discussing Rav Dovid Oppenheim and his library
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May 26, 2020 |
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With Feivel Schneider of Legacy Judaica
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May 24, 2020 |
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With Prof. Eric Lawee discussing his new book on Rashi, his first book on Abarbnel & more
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May 17, 2020 |
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With R' Avrohom Biderman of Artscroll discussing all things Artscroll
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May 07, 2020 |
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Twitter Live Solo (AMA)
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May 05, 2020 |
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With Natan Hirsch of the NLI discussing Seforim stores & sales in Israel, publishing houses and more
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May 03, 2020 |
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With Michelle Chesner discussing old books, Seforim, and more
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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With R' Yossel Housman discussing the history of Chassidus
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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With Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter discussing Rav Yaakov Emden (the Yaavetz)
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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With R' Shimon Szimonowitz of Machon Aleh Zayis on the process of publishing a Sefer today
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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With Prof. Marc Shapiro discussing his books, Rav Mazuz, Rabbi Dr. Yitzchak (Isadore) Twersky and more
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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With Onthemainline about his blog, Shadal and much more
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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With David Bashevkin discussing writing, his Haggada, and more
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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With Israel Mizrahi of Mizrahi Books about old books and seforim
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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Solo show about some new Seforim and discussing various Stores and Distributors
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Seforimchatter #1 - Solo show, discussing how i got into all of this and some new Seforim
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Mar 23, 2020 |