About the Book
Spring 2027
Rediscovering the Holidays The Forgotten History of Jewish Festivals
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Ishay Rosen-Zvi is a professor of rabbinic literature in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University and serves as a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. In 2025, he received the Rothschild Prize for Excellence in the Humanities, and in 2026 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of several books, most recently Rediscovering the Holidays: The Forgotten History of Jewish Festivals (The Jewish Publication Society, 2027), the focus of this lecture series (details below); The Talmud: A History of Learning, co-authored with Yakov Z. Meir (Magness Press: Jerusalem, 2025); and How to Read Mishna and Midrash: An Introduction to Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press: Berkeley, 2026). His 2016 book, Goy: Israel Others and the Birth of the Gentile, co-authored with Adi Ophir (Oxford University Press), won the Goshen-Goldstein prize for the best book in Jewish philosophy.