The Complexity of Rabbi Soloveitchik and the Problem of Fundamentalism: Part 1 of 2
Professor William Kolbrener discusses his new book about Rav J.B. Soloveitchik, The Last Rabbi, in conversation with Dr. Elliott Malamet. Introductory remarks by Rabbi Nathan Lopes-Cardozo.
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Dr. William Kolbrener
William Kolbrener earned a PhD from Columbia University and is currently a professor in the Department of English Literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel. An internationally renowned authority on John Milton, Renaissance poetry and philosophy, Kolbrener also publishes and lectures widely on Jewish life and learning. He is the author of a new and groundbreaking study of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik entitled The Last Rabbi. Dr. William Kolbrener, a senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University , has brought his dynamic style of…
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo is the author of Judaism On Trial: An Unconventional Discussion about Jews, Judaism and the State of Israel and Thoughts to Ponder: Daring Observations about the Jewish Tradition. Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Dean of the David Cardozo Academy for Jewish Studies and Human Dignity and Associate Dean of the Isralight Institute in Jerusalem, lectures regularly at over fifty institutions of Jewish and secular learning around the world. He is often hosted by programs with affiliation…