'The Talmud as Icon:' Student, faculty, and public colloquium with Barry Wimpfheimer

Monday, Feb. 22, 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. Humanities Library, Eaton HUMN 350 | CU-Boulder campus Space is limited! RSVPs required: Please email CUJewishStudies@colorado.edu, or call us at 303-492-7143, to reserve a spot. Beyond the ideas that the Talmud expresses and the commentaries it has motivated, the Talmud has played an important symbolic role representing Judaism, Jewishness and Jews. In this talk, Wimpfheimer will explain how the physical form of the Talmud has come be iconized within modern Judaism.