Date:
Monday, September 16, 2019, 4:00pm
Location:
Harvard Semitic Museum, Room 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
More information: Yaacob Dweck is a professor of history and Judaic studies at Princeton University. His work explores reactionary movements and figures that redefined the intellectual framework of Judaism in early modern Europe. He is the author of The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism Early Modern Venice (Princeton, 2011) and Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas (Princeton, 2019).