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March 7, 2013

The Machine-Made Matzah Controversy: Law and Tradition in Conflict

Rachel Furst

Rachel Furst

Rachel Furst is a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, having completed her PhD in Medieval Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  She received a BA in Medieval Studies from Barnard College and an MA in Jewish History from Hebrew University and is a graduate of the Advanced Talmud Institute at Matan. Rachel teaches Jewish history, Jewish law, and rabbinic literature at institutions in Israel and abroad.

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The acrimonious international debate that ensued in the mid-nineteenth century, when a machine for baking Passover matzot was invented, touched upon essential questions concerning the development of Jewish law and lent expression to deeply-held convictions regarding the relationship between traditional piety and modernization.

This Rapoport Memorial Lecture, taught by Dr. Rachel Furst, is sponsored by Dr. Samuel and Sanda E. Rapoport.

It was originally recorded on 03/07/2013.

- 03/07/2013
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