Malka Simkovich: When Did The Jewish Diaspora Begin? [Israel & Diaspora 2/5]
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This episode is sponsored by Eden Beit Shemesh. Contact Rina Weinberg at https://edenbeitshemesh.com/ for more details. Noam Taragin, son of our previous guest Rabbi Moshe Taragin, was seriously injured in...
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In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Malka Simkovich—a scholar of Jewish history, the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, and a three-time 18Forty guest—about previous Jewish diasporas.
We tend to think of “Israel-diaspora relations” as a modern phenomenon. But, as Dr. Simkovich reminds us, that situation existed well over 2,000 years ago, when some Jews returned to the Land of Israel following the Babylonian exile while others remained abroad. In this episode we discuss:
- What are the differences between the notions of golah, diaspora, and galut?
- Did ancient diaspora Jews have a political equivalent to “supporting Israel”?
- How should Jews live when in a partial state of exile?
Interview begins at 8:58.
Dr. Malka Simkovich is the director and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society and previously served as the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and Director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She earned a doctoral degree in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism from Brandeis University and a Master’s degree in Hebrew Bible from Harvard University. She is the author of The Making of Jewish Universalism: From Exile to Alexandria (2016), Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism (2018), and Letters From Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity, (2024). This is her third time speaking on 18Forty.
References:
18Forty Podcast: “Malka Simkovich: The Mystery of the Jewish People”
18Forty Podcast: “Malka Simkovich: The Secrets of Second Temple Judaism”
Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity by Malka Z. Simkovich
The Antiquities of the Jews by Josephus
The Elephantine Papyri in English: Three Millennia of Cross-Cultural Continuity and Change by Bezalel Porten
Rosh Hashanah 18b
Ben Sira
Zechariah 8:19
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