University of California

Live from the 2018 AIS Conference: The ‘Berkeley School’ Approach to Hebrew Literature

July 9, 2018 00:53:33

On this plenary session at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Prof. Chana Kronfeld, Dr. Yael Segalovitz, and host Gilad Halpern discuss the attempts to “de-ghettoize” Hebrew literature and study it in a broader and richer context.

Imagined Religion: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Judaism

April 2, 2018 00:32:56

Daniel Boyarin, Professor of Talmudic Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses his forthcoming book “Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notions”, in which he argues that Judaism, as a full-blown concept, is a modern creation.