Product Description
by Ethan B. Katz (Editor), Sergey Dolgopolski (Editor), Elisha Ancselovits (Editor)
This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the beit midrash) and the academy.
Author Biography
Ethan B. Katz teaches History and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous books include The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (2015) and Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times (2015, co-edited with Ari Joskowicz).
Sergey Dolgopolski is Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Thought in the University at Buffalo SUNY. He has written Other Others: The Political After the Talmud (2018); The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud (2012); and What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement (2009).
Elisha Ancselovits teaches at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and Yeshivat Maale Gilboa and is a fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He has published widely in English and Hebrew and is completing a multi-volume history of Judaism through the lens of Jewish Law.
