tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post825575334819842633..comments2024-02-08T00:38:57.594-05:00Comments on Talmud תלמוד by Tzvee Zahavy: Is Jewish Studies too Jewish?Tzvee Zahavyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-82849141823341106542014-04-30T06:29:40.183-04:002014-04-30T06:29:40.183-04:00I have been reading the Jewish Review of Books sin...I have been reading the Jewish Review of Books since it came out.<br /><br />I never noticed that "reviewers review each other's books." Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07289469271632512792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-53772274105720802002014-03-25T10:17:08.830-04:002014-03-25T10:17:08.830-04:00Occasional probing self-reflection can be of value...Occasional probing self-reflection can be of value to professors in any discipline.Tzvee Zahavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-59518340773419996582014-03-25T02:37:06.484-04:002014-03-25T02:37:06.484-04:00Tzvee (damn auto correct)
SorryTzvee (damn auto correct)<br />SorryJeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-77412828453973667742014-03-25T02:36:15.481-04:002014-03-25T02:36:15.481-04:00Tavern,
Thanks for posting this. On the one hand, ...Tavern,<br />Thanks for posting this. On the one hand, I agree that the isolation of Jewish Studies is bad for the field and for academia, generally. On the other hand, the greater danger to the field is, I believe, the utter vacuousness of many of its practitioners, itself a result of Hebrew and textual illiteracy.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-9421999663891385122014-03-24T21:02:23.757-04:002014-03-24T21:02:23.757-04:00Hi Gil. Thanks for your comment. Neither book coun...Hi Gil. Thanks for your comment. Neither book counts as academic scholarship. But you'd need to have some familiarity with the academic profession to know that. Anyway, it's not my article. I agree here with the opinions of Professor Aaron Hughes.<br /><br />And Larry not everyone knows precisely to whom you refer, though I do welcome your oblique agreements.Tzvee Zahavyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15833902273722124103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-47777442550600424272014-03-24T20:25:05.607-04:002014-03-24T20:25:05.607-04:00If you can't trust foundations that promote pe...If you can't trust foundations that promote people who arm terrorists and Iranian fundamentalists while lying to Congress to accurately promote Jewish studies, who can you trust?Reb Yudelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3523041.post-32728605744425733452014-03-24T17:05:13.142-04:002014-03-24T17:05:13.142-04:00Which of the two books in the Library of Jewish Id...Which of the two books in the Library of Jewish Ideas is not scholarship? The one by Ruth Wisse or by Jon Levenson (both by Harvard professors)? <a href="http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/lji.html" rel="nofollow">http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/lji.html</a>Gil Studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12776831546758682126noreply@blogger.com