Can determinism still leave room for repentance, love, prayer, and Jewish law? In this interview, Yitzhak Melamed reflects on Spinoza, Maimonides, and Hasdai Crescas, exploring religious practice, the critique of anthropomorphism, and philosophy as the slow work of understanding causes, reasons, and human life.
What can Judeo-Arabic literature tell us about the medieval world – and about our own? In this interview, Ehud Krinis explores the rich encounters between Jews and Arabs in the Middle Ages, tracing shared literary cultures, intellectual exchanges, and forms of dialogue whose significance still speaks to the present.
In this interview, Giuseppe Veltri reflects on his intellectual biography and on his understanding of Jewish Studies as a vital discipline for the present. He considers the relation between philosophy and philology, and argues for the enduring power of Jewish texts to illuminate some of the most urgent questions of our time.
From the Septuagint to scepticism, Giuseppe Veltri reflects on an intellectual journey that leads from Calabria to Berlin. He speaks about Jewish texts, the formation of his scholarly path, and the meaning of living pluralism in contemporary Europe.
How did philosophy travel in the medieval world? In this interview, Yoav Meyrav reflects on the material life of Jewish and Arabic philosophy: the manuscripts that preserved it, the scribes and translators who transmitted it, and the generations of readers who kept these traditions alive.