Sunday December 6th, 11:00 AM EST via Zoom

Facilitated by Professor Shai Secunda

Co-sponsored by 929 English and IDRA

In her newest collection, Nicole Krauss considers the bewildering matter of gender, and particularly the becoming and undoing of manhood. With her unflinching gaze and finely-tuned writing, Krauss invites to reconsider foundational biblical stories, from the creation of Adam and Eve to Amnon’s rape of Tamar.

Shai Secunda occupies the Jacob Neusner chair in Judaism at Bard College, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Study of Religions program. He is the author of The Iranian Talmud: Reading the Bavli in Sasanian Iran (Philadelphia, 2014), and The Talmud’s Red Fence: Menstruation and Difference in Babylonian Judaism and its Sasanian Context (Oxford, 2020), and writes regularly for the Jewish Review of Books on Jewish scholarship and culture.

Free of Charge, Suggested donation $15.