Seforimchatter
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The Seforimchatter podcast is dedicated to the discussion of Seforim (holy texts and works pertaining to them), Jewish (non-sacred) Books, Jewish History and more. The variety of guests include rabbis, professors, historians, authors, editors, and others in the field. For more information or to sponsor a show, check out seforimchatter.com or email [email protected]
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Rav Shlomo Ganzfried (1804 - 1886) (with Rabbi Yitzchak Stroh)
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 7: Prof. Maya Soifer Irish - The Spanish...
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Bonus episode: Live with R' Moshe Maimon discussing various antique seforim, man...
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Jerusalem from the 7th to 13th centuries (with Prof. John Hosler)
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 6: Prof. Paola Tartakoff - The Papal Inq...
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With Prof. Yitzhak Melamed discussing Solomon Maimon (1753 - 1800) and the new e...
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 5: Prof. Sarah Ifft Decker - Jewish Wome...
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Jun 28, 20231:04:44pending
With Yehuda Esral discussing Sefer Zikaron Pnei Moshe and its contents (includin...
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Jun 25, 202357:43pending
Live from Lakewood: "Kevarimchatter" with Dovi Safier and Yossel Housman (a/k/a...
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Jun 22, 202359:47pending
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 4: Prof. Marc Herman - The great Talmudi...
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With R' Zvi Davidson discussing Rav Tzvi Hirsch Ferber (1879 - 1966) and his Sef...
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Jun 18, 20231:08:48pending
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 3: With Prof. Ross Brann - The Greatness...
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Jun 14, 20231:46:49pending
The Great Italian Plague of 1630-31 (with Prof. Susan Einbinder)
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Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 2: With Prof. Benjamin Gampel - Broad th...
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With Elie Feder discussing Gematria Refigured - a new look at Gematria and his n...
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Jun 4, 20231:15:55pending
Spanish Jewry Through the Ages, Episode 1: With Prof. Jonathan Ray - Overview of...
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With Prof. Adam Mendelsohn discussing Jewish Soldiers in the Union Army during t...
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May 28, 20231:28:54pending
With Rav Aaron Lopianksy discussing Sefer Nachlas Yosef on Megillas Rus and the...
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Live from Prague (feat. special guests Yehuda Geberer & Dovi Safier)
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With Aaron Friedman discussing Sefer Pnei Avraham on Shas and the story of how h...
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The Rosh (Rabeinu Asher b. Yechiel, 1250 - 1327) (with Rabbi Prof. Ephraim Kanar...
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With Rav Shnayor Burton discussing the mitzvah to reside in Eretz Yisrael and hi...
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Apr 30, 202354:13pending
Pope Pius XII and his relationship with Mussolini and Hitler and his silence reg...
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Apr 23, 20231:21:01pending
With R' Moshe Maimon discussing the Legacy Judaica auction 11 catalogue
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Apr 18, 20231:27:22pending
Halachic challenges with the early Jewish immigration to America (1850 - 1924) (...
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Apr 16, 20231:23:07pending
The ritual murder trial (blood libel) of Trent in 1475 (with Prof. Ronnie Hsia)
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Apr 9, 202339:32pending
With Rabbi Isaac Rice discussing the Haggadah Shel Pesach and the foundations of...
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Apr 2, 202350:30pending
With Rav Yehoshua Hartman discussing the Maharal's Shabbos HaGadol Derasha
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Mar 29, 20231:18:07pending
With R' Moshe Hubner discussing his English adaptation of Minchas Chinuch on Pes...
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Mar 26, 202357:46pending
With R' Eliyahu Simcha Hellmann discussing Rav Yitzchak Dov Bamberger - The Wurz...
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Mar 19, 20231:35:29pending
With R' Shimon Szimonowitz discussing Sefer Igros Sofrim: The Letters of the Eig...
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Mar 12, 20232:31:07pending
With Dr. Zev Eleff discussing the history of the Purim Shpiel (in America)
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Mar 5, 202334:59pending
With R' Elimelech Zweibel discussing Sefer Eim Labinah of Rav Yaakov Emden
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Feb 26, 202355:27pending
With Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten discussing Jewish daily life in the Middle Ages
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Feb 19, 202353:12pending
With R' Dovid Silverman discussing Sefer Matamei Yitzchak & the story behind the...
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Feb 12, 202337:31pending
With Prof. Yossi Chajes discussing Kabbalistic Trees (האילן הקבלי)
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With Prof. Daniel Schwartz discussing the history of the (word) Ghetto
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Jan 29, 202347:22pending
With Prof. Matt Goldish discussing Chacham David Nieto (1654 - 1728)
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Rav Dovid HaNaggid & his commentary on Parshas Vaera (with R' Moshe Maimon)
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Jan 15, 20231:08:54pending
With Rabbi Yehoshua Lifschitz discussing the various Seforim that he wrote & edi...
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Jan 8, 202339:37pending
With Prof. Emily Michelson discussing Catholic Preaching to Jews in Rome
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With Prof. Jessica Marglin discussing Nissim Shamama (d. 1873) and the legal bat...
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With Prof. Steven Bowman discussing Sefer Yosippon and his new English translati...
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With Prof. Edward Fram discussing the codification of Jewish law in the 16th cen...
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With Prof. Francesca Trivellato discussing the myth that Jews invented Bills of...
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With Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD discussing his new book, The Anatomy of Jewish La...
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With R' Moshe Maimon discussing Rabeinu Avraham Ben Harambam (1186 - 1237); Life...
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Nov 20, 20221:39:59pending
With Dr. Yakov Mayer discussing the first edition of the Talmud Yerushalmi
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Chacham Shemtob Gaguine (1884 - 1953) and his Seforim (with Roy Shasha)
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The Jews of Suriname (with Prof. Aviva Ben-Ur)
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