The birth of the cosmopolitan Jew – The Tel Aviv Review

Tel Aviv Review

English - March 20, 2015 14:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratings
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The birth of the cosmopolitan Jew

Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the US, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields of expertise. He discusses his latest study, cleverly entitled "Aliens vs Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs Jewish Nomads."

The unwitting standard-bearers of Judaism

Prof. Renee Levine Melammed, a senior faculty member at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shares with us her insights from her momentous study about the history of crypto-Jewish women in Spain under the Inquisition.

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