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Book Cov­er of the Week: The Tri­al of the Talmud

Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
January 9, 2013

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

The Tri­al of the Tal­mud: Paris, 1240  (John Fried­man, Jean Con­nell Hoff, Robert Chaz­an) presents pri­ma­ry texts (offered togeth­er in Eng­lish for the first time) relat­ed to the ​“Tri­al of the Tal­mud” that took place in Europe dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages. Dur­ing the tri­al, rab­bis were called upon to defend the Tal­mud against the claim that it was a harm­ful text and thus ​“intol­er­a­ble in a Chris­t­ian society.”

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Orig­i­nal­ly from Lan­cast­er, Penn­syl­va­nia, Nao­mi is the CEO of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from Emory Uni­ver­si­ty with degrees in Eng­lish and Art His­to­ry and, in addi­tion, stud­ied at Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don. Pri­or to her role as exec­u­tive direc­tor and now CEO, Nao­mi served as the found­ing edi­tor of the JBC web­site and blog and man­ag­ing edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World. In addi­tion, she has over­seen JBC’s dig­i­tal ini­tia­tives, and also devel­oped the JBC’s Vis­it­ing Scribe series and Unpack­ing the Book: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Conversation.

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