What Do the Dead Know?: Aharai Mot 5784

The JTS Commentary for Aharei Mot 5784 by Dr. Jonathan Boyarin, Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University and Adjunct Professor, JTS Music provided by JJReinhold / Pond5.

The Art of the Jewish Family: A History Of Women In Early New York In Five Objects

A DISCUSSION WITH AUTHOR DR. LAURA ARNOLD LEIBMANIn "The Art of the Jewish Family" Dr. Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who lived in New York between the years 1750 and 1850. Each chapter creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks past texts alone to material culture in order to further understand early Jewish American women’s lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity.This event was sponsored by The JTS Library. Dr. David Kraemer, Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS, served as moderator.ABOUT DR. LAURA ARNOLD LEIBMANLaura Arnold Leibman is a professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America and uses everyday obj