Join Howard Schickler and Am Yisrael for a series taught by Professor Miriam Goldstein. On June 9th, the series will premiere with A World Written in Judeo-Arabic: From Sa’adia’s Tafsir to al-Andalus, followed by Lecture II: Voices for Daily Life, and Lecture III: The Lady and Her Handmaiden.
Join the Zoom Meeting with this link!
If you are interested in this series, please let Howard know by email (hschickler@sbcglobal.net). This will allow Howard to share any related materials he finds. The lectures are complete by themselves, so reading any such materials is not necessary.
Professor Miriam Goldstein is Professor of Arabic at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she researches and teaches the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of the Jews in the Mediterranean and Near East, on the basis of Judeo-Arabic, Arabic, and Hebrew texts. She holds degrees from Harvard College (A.B., Near Eastern Literatures and Civilizations) and the University of Cambridge (M.Phil, Oriental Studies) as well as a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her current research focuses on the Karaite scholar Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī in his rich and cosmopolitan context of tenth-century Baghdad, as well as on the long and colorful history of Toledot Yeshu, a counter-historical narrative composed by Jews in Late Antiquity and transmitted until the present.