Professor Yaakov Elman’s death on June 29, 2018 was a great loss for Talmudic scholarship and Jewish studies more broadly.  Elman was born on August 30, 1943 in the Bronx,…

Joel L. Kraemer, the John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School and Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago died in Chicago on Thursday, October 11th,…

In his memoir, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, published in 2012, Bernard Lewis wrote (page 95): “While my principal concern had for some time been…