#61: What is Jewish Studies For?

July 01, 2021 00:47:42
#61: What is Jewish Studies For?
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#61: What is Jewish Studies For?

Jul 01 2021 | 00:47:42

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Show Notes

Shaul Magid (Dartmouth College) and Pamela Nadell (American University) join Yehuda Kurtzer to take a broad view of the academic field of Jewish Studies: its origins, its uneasy relationship with the community and philanthropy that enable it, and its problematics.

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