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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Zionism according to a New York Sheriff & a Serbian Kabbalist
Description: A virtual event presentation by Jonnie Schnytzer
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Serbian kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai may or may not have heard of New York Sheriff Mordechai Emmanuel Noah and vice versa. Contemporaries, both had a Zionist dream more than half a century before Theodore Herzel. Let’s view the texts which may have influenced the Austrian father of modern Zionism.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Jonnie Schnytzer is a Phd candidate focusing on medieval kabbalah. His dissertation is focused on the kabbalistic system of thought of Rabbi Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi. Jonnie is also preparing a critical edition of Ashkenazi’s commentary on S...