From Mishnah to Microsoft
A Special Learning Opportunity at Shaarei Kodesh
Join us for a morning of prayer and learning with Dr. Jonathan Milgram from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Milgram will lead an interactive lesson titled "Memory, Manuscript and Modernization: From Mishnah to Microsoft"
For more information about Dr. Milgram, please click here.
Minyan - 9:30 am
Breakfast 10:00 am
Learning with Dr. Milgram - 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
This program has been generously underwritten by The Jewish Theological Seminary
Class with Dr. Jonathan Milgram
Sunday, Jan 11, 2015, 10:30 AM
19785 Hampton Drive, Boca Raton, FL, United States
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Dr. Jonathan Milgram
DR. JONATHAN S. MILGRAM
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
The 2009 List College Professor of the Year, Jonathan Milgram is Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he has taught since 2004.
Dr. Milgram has taught at Hunter College, the Drisha Institute and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and also served as professor at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and London School for Jewish Studies (formerly Jews’ College) in England. Dr. Milgram is former Coordinator of JTS’s Saul Lieberman Institute for Talmudic Research, a research institute dedicated to the computerization of medieval Jewish manuscripts, and recently was on the editorial staff of the Encyclopedia Judaica, second edition.
Dr. Milgram’s research interests and publications deal with Talmud and Jewish law and he is currently completing a book on early talmudic inheritance law in comparative context. His teaching experience includes courses in Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, comparative sex ethics, talmudic literature and medieval Jewish law. His critical commentary to tractate Bekhorot will be included in the series published by the Society for the Interpretation of Talmud in Israel.
Dr. Milgram has a BA from Columbia University and a BA from JTS. He earned his MA and rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University and his PhD from Bar Ilan University in Israel.