David C. Kraemer
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David Charles Kraemer is a Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics and the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
. As director of the Library, Kraemer "oversees the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere."
Kraemer's books include:
He is editor of The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory (Oxford, 1989).
Kraemer is regularly quoted in the national press, local, and Jewish press as an authority on questions related to Jewish practice and the study of Talmud.
An authority on the laws of kashrut
, he has written about the increased stringencies associated with the observance of kashrut
. Kramer has pointed out that many who observe kashrut
today would not be willing to tolerate the ritual standards of renowned rabbinic authorities such as Akiva
, Rashi
, or Joseph Caro.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.JTS operates five schools: Albert A...
. As director of the Library, Kraemer "oversees the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere."
Kraemer's books include:
- The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Babylonian Talmud (Oxford, 1990)
- Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (Oxford, 1995)
- Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature (Oxford, 1996)
- The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism (Routledge, 2000)
- Exploring Judaism: The Collected Essays of David Kraemer (Scholars Press, 2000)
- Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge, 2007)
He is editor of The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory (Oxford, 1989).
Kraemer is regularly quoted in the national press, local, and Jewish press as an authority on questions related to Jewish practice and the study of Talmud.
An authority on the laws of kashrut
Kashrut
Kashrut is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér , meaning "fit" Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus) is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed...
, he has written about the increased stringencies associated with the observance of kashrut
Kashrut
Kashrut is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér , meaning "fit" Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus) is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed...
. Kramer has pointed out that many who observe kashrut
Kashrut
Kashrut is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér , meaning "fit" Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus) is the set of Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with halakha (Jewish law) is termed...
today would not be willing to tolerate the ritual standards of renowned rabbinic authorities such as Akiva
Rabbi Akiva
Akiva ben Joseph simply known as Rabbi Akiva , was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century . He was a great authority in the matter of Jewish tradition, and one of the most central and essential contributors to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha...
, Rashi
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzhaki , or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi , was a medieval French rabbi famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh...
, or Joseph Caro.