The Genesis of Jewish Gender: From The Bible To The Baal Shem Tov

Online conversation via Zoom (link to be sent out 1 day prior)

This lecture will trace the development of myths, symbols, concepts, and identity definitions that delineated the gender boundary in Jewish theory and practice. Moshe Rosman will explore gender as conceived in the book of Genesis and applied in Europe in the medieval and early modern periods.
Respondent: Sarit Kattan-Gribetz, Fordham University

Moshe Rosman is a Professor Emeritus of Jewish History from Bar Ilan University. He is the author of several groundbreaking and award-winning books The Lords' Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth During the Eighteenth Century (Harvard, 1990), Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba'al Shem Tov (California, 1996), How Jewish Is Jewish History? (Littman, 2007). Moshe Rosman is the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award, The Zalman Shazar Prize and the Jerzy Milewski Award. His research interests include Polish-Jewish history, Jewish gender history, historiography and Hasidism.

Sarit Kattan Gribetz is an Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. She is the author of Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism (Princeton, 2020) and numerous articles about time in antiquity, including the use of women's bodies as metaphors for time; the correspondence between Philo and Seneca's philosophical approaches to quotidian time; and about the recent "temporal turn" in the fields of Ancient Judaism and Jewish Studies. She is currently writing her second book, "Jerusalem: A Feminist History."

All Fordham events in Jewish Studies are free and open to public.