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Peter Cole The Dream of a Poem:
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John Efrom The Rise of the Modern Jewish Doctor
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Charlotte Fonrobert The Rabbis' Hermaphrodite:
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Peter Cole is a prize-winning American poet and translator. He most recently published a collection of Hebrew poetry of the Iberian Peninsula, from the 10th-century through the forced expulsions of 1492. On Sunday, October 14, 2007 Cole will speak about his new anthology: The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492.
John M. Efron was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied history at Monash University, Melbourne, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1979. As a graduate, he attended Colombia University, New York, earning a PhD in 1991. In 2001 he became the Koret Chair in Jewish History at UC Berkeley. His research focus is on the cultural history of modern Jewry, especially in European German-speaking countries and on the role of science in the modernization of Jews. Among his publications are: Medicine and the German Jews: A History (Yale University Press, Spring 2001)
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert is an associate professor in the Religious Studies department of Stanford University. She specializes in Judaism, especially talmudic literature and culture. Her research interests include gender in Jewish culture, the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, the discourses of orthodoxy versus heresy, and rabbinic conceptions of Judaism with respect to Greco-Roman culture. She completed her graduate training at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Fonrobert is the author of Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000), which won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies of the year.