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The Fate of Moses Cordovero’s Autograph Manuscripts: From Sixteenth-Century Safed to Twentieth-Century Jerusalem
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Speaker Name: Eugene Matanky,
Title: The Fate of Moses Cordovero’s Autograph Manuscripts: From Sixteenth-Century Safed to Twentieth-Century Jerusalem,
Date: Monday, March 9, 2026,
Time: 7pm,
Location: Gottesman Library - 5th floor,
Speaker bio: Eugene D. Matanky is a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harry Starr Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His doctorate, entitled Esoteric Labor: The Making of Cordoverean Kabbalah explored Moses Cordovero's (1522–1570) kabbalistic writings as part of the history of knowledge, employing material philological and bibliographical approaches to uncover the various hidden figures, processes, and labors that created the intellectual construct of Cordoverean Kabbalah. His current project turns to the dissemination and migration of kabbalistic knowledge from the Spanish Expulsion until the Hebrew printing presses of early modern Italy.
Organization: BERNARD REVEL GRADUATE SCHOOL, LIBRARY. Event Locator: 2026-ABDDMF.
Monday, March 9, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Wilf-Mendel Gottesman Library.
Orientations: Ari Gordon in conversation with Mustafa Akyol
Orientations: Ari Gordon in conversation with Mustafa Akyol
New York City book launch for Dr. Ari Gordon's "Kibla".
Organization: SCHNEIER PROGRAM FOR INT'L AFFAIRS. Event Locator: 2026-ABDHAF.
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
Wilf-Belfer Hall-1214 (Presidential Conference Room).
Reflections on the Life and Impact of Rabbi Jacob Emden on the Occasion of his 250th Yahrtzeit
Reflections on the Life and Impact of Rabbi Jacob Emden on the Occasion of his 250th Yahrtzeit,
Featuring a conversation between Shnayer Z. Leiman and Jacob J. Schacter
Sunday, April 26, 2026 8pm This program will be in person and on zoom.
Shnayer Z. Leiman is Distinguished Professor of Jewish History and Literature at the Graduate School of Jewish Studies, Touro University. He has written extensively on Rabbi Jacob Emden and the Emden-Eybeschuetz Controversy.
Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Rabbi Jacob Emden, helped publish a number of his sefarim and published a number of articles on him. His next book is a new edition of Megillat Sefer,…
Organization: BERNARD REVEL GRADUATE SCHOOL. Event Locator: 2026-ABDGQW.
Sunday, April 26, 2026, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Wilf-Glueck Center-306 Student Lounge.