Call for Papers: Arendt Studies, Volume 7
The Babylonian Talmud is the principal surviving literary source for the Jewish communities in the Sasanian empire (3rd to 7th centuries AD). As a result, scholarship has primarily focused on the rabbinic elite represented in and responsible for the Talmud. However, hundreds of Jewish magical amulets written on bowls provide access to the unknown lives and practices of Jews in the very cities in which the Babylonian rabbis flourished. These magical texts may serve as a rare vantage point from which to reconstruct the social and cultural history of Jews in the Sasanian empire.
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We are happy to announce that the entire collection of articles published in English in Yad Vashem Studies is available on-line through the RAMBI catalogue of the National Library of Israel. The Hebrew articles are to be made available in the coming weeks.
The Stuart A.
The Jewish Studies Graduate Student Association at IU Bloomington invites you all to our 11th Annual Conference, "Judaisms, Jewishness, and Time," on February 2 and 3, 2023. It is a virtual event that is free to attend. Please see the pdf schedule of panels, presenters, and events (with Zoom links).
Jonathan Kaufman will discuss The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties that Shaped Modern China, the extraordinary story of the Kadoorie and Sassoon families who stood astride China’s business, politics and economy for 175 years.
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the