Whether applied to movies, songs, restaurants or presidents, any list of “bests” is a highly subjective exercise that serves mostly as a conversation starter and sometimes as a “cause de guerre” in ...
"The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture" by Ruth R. Wisse (The Free Press, $28). The Hebrew Bible is a canon of 24 books, written in the same language, collected by a people ...
What were the most important Jewish texts of the last 40 years? What did the Jewish opinion-makers have to say about the most important issues of Jewish survival? Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin ...
With remarkably little fanfare, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and Brandeis University Press have launched a new book series that promises to alter profoundly the canon of modern ...
Sefaria, a website that aims to put the nearly infinite Jewish canon online for free, has published an acclaimed translation of the Talmud in English. NEW YORK (JTA) — For centuries, studying a page ...
Theater J, the nation's largest and most prominent Jewish theater, announces an exciting new program, "Expanding the Canon" which will commission seven extraordinary racially and ethnically diverse ...
What might now be called “the old Jewish canon” would consist of the Tanakh, Mishnah, and Gemara, as well as a few other widely studied texts such as “The Guide for the Perplexed” and Shulchan Aruch.
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