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Glenn Dynner

Glenn Dynner is a professor and chair of religion at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is Yankel’s Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland (Oxford University Press).

Fall 2018

Visualizing Hasidism

Glenn Dynner

Everything contains sparks of the divine, the Ba’al Shem Tov and his disciples taught; therefore, everything—even material things—can be sanctified.

Brief Kvetches: Notes to a 19th-Century Miracle Worker

Summer 2014

Brief Kvetches: Notes to a 19th-Century Miracle Worker

Glenn Dynner

One day in the 1860s, a father burst into Rabbi Elijah Guttmacher's study house begging for help. His son's stomach was distended, and he was barking like a dog.

Winter 2012

Untrue Blood

Glenn Dynner

 There was a common idea behind ritual murder and host desecration accusations: Jews were imagined to be re-enacting the crucifixion.

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