MONDAY, 11/8/2021: Oren Yirmiya on Franz Kafka and the Talmud Bavli

Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for a presentation by:
Oren Yirmiya (PhD Candidate, Department of Middle Eastern Cultures and Languages, UC Berkeley)
“Forgetting the Torah, Losing Halakhah: Tradition and Crisis in
Franz Kafka’s ‘On Parables’ and Talmud Bavli M. Shabbat 138b-139a”

With a response by:

Samuel Catlin (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature and the Divinity School, University of Chicago)

Monday November 8, 2021 at 5:30 PM Central

**Swift 400**

Oren’s paper, to be read in advance of the session is available for download below. The password to the document will be emailed to the Jewish Studies Workshop email listserv. If you would like to be added to this listserv, please click the “Subscribe” tab above.

Pre-circulated paper: Oren Yirmiya – Kafka and Talmud – U Chicago workshop

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