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Alberto discusses details about Queen Esther's character, gleaned from a variety of Rabbinic sources. Alberto is Associate Professor in Applied and Computational Mathematics in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. He was formally at University of Oxford (2016-2019) and at ETH Zurich (2011-2016).
Travelers’ Maps and Indigenous Tourism in the Lacandón Rainforest, Chiapas, México
Dr. Del Campo discusses Mayan maps of the Lacandon Rainforest in Southern Mexico and what lessons we can learn from them.
Luz Evalie Martin del Campo is the David Walker Memorial Fellow in Early Modern History at the Bodleian Libraries-Special Collections, The University of Oxford.
Interpreting Kafka‘s novel The Trial
Karl E. Grözinger is Professor of Jewish and Religious Studies at the Universität Potsdam. From 1985 to 1994 Professor of Jewish Studies in Frankfurt a.M. and from 1989 to 1991 in Lund, Sweden, from 1994 to 2007 Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the Universität Potsdam and Head of the Institute of Jewish Studies. He is Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa, and Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
Robert Alter is emeritus Professor of the Graduate School and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. His twenty-eight published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses.His completed translation of the Hebrew Bible with a commentary was published in 2018 in a three-volume set.
The Kaufmann Hebraica collection of Budapest
Dr. Kinga Devenyi received her Ph.D. in Semitic Philology from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and is the curator at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute for International Studies. She is also the curator of Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts and the Kaufmann and Goldziher collections in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Irvin Ungar, a former pulpit rabbi and antiquarian bookseller, has devoted the past quarter-century to scholarship on Arthur Szyk. Ungar is the author of Arthur Szyk: Soldier in Art (winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award), co-producer of the documentary film, “Soldier in Art: Arthur Szyk,” and the creator and publisher of the luxury limited edition of The Szyk Haggadah. He has also served as the curator of The Arthur Szyk Society in Burlingame, California.
