Videos from Our 2nd Annual Conference
The Jewish Review of Books had its 2nd annual conference on Sunday, November 6 at the elegant and edifying Yeshiva University Museum. It was a day of great conversations between readers and writers, including Eliot Cohen, Moshe Halbertal, Shai Held, Dara Horn, Meir Soloveichik, Bret Stephens, Joseph H.H. Weiler, Leon Wieseltier, and Ruth R. Wisse.
JRB subscribers and registered site users can now watch highlights from the day. (To access the videos, you must be registered and logged into the website. Register and log-in here: jewishreviewofbooks.com/user/register)
Featured Videos:
- A witty, insightful, and personal conversation on “The Soul of American Jewry” between cultural critic and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Leon Wieseltier, with JRB’s very own editor, Abe Socher.
- An important panel discussion on the profound theological question, “Does God Love the Jews?” between Shai Held, rosh yeshiva at Mechon Hadar, and Meir Soloveichik, rabbi at Congregation Shearith Israel.
- A deep, humorous, and unscripted discussion on the question, “Should Jewish Literature Be Depressing?” between senior fellow at The Tikvah Fund Ruth R. Wisse and award-winning novelist Dara Horn.
- A captivating talk on “David Ben-Gurion in War and Peace” with Eliot Cohen, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkin University.
We hope to see you at the Jewish Review of Books’ 3rd Annual Conference in New York City, October 2017.
Suggested Reading
Frogs, Griffins, and Jews Without Hats: How My Children Illuminated the Haggadah
The illustrated haggadahs of medieval Europe contain more than just rich, colorful depictions of the Exodus story. The closer you look, and with innocent eyes, the more sophisticated the artistic commentary becomes. There are drawings of rabbinic midrash and not a small amount of political satire and polemic.
The Hit Man
What music businessman Morris Levy craved even more than the recording artists themselves were the copyrights and catalogues the labels contained. “Copyrights don’t talk back,” he liked to say.
Out-of-Body Experiences: Recent Israeli Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Yarkon is as good a site as any for pondering the relationship between Israel and the imagination.
Joseph the Righteous
But on the very night in 1737 that Joseph Süss Oppenheimer’s patron suddenly passed away, he, “his servants, and many other court officials were arrested, and soon a special inquisition committee was convened in order to investigate the court Jew’s ‘atrocious crimes.’”
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