Sandra Seltzer Silberman HBI Conversations Series Featuring Max Strassfeld, “Trans Tal­mud: Androg­y­nes and Eunuchs in Rab­binic Literature.”

In Trans Tal­mud: Androg­y­nes and Eunuchs in Rab­binic Literature, Professor Max Strassfeld argues that rabbinic literature’s eunuchs and androgynes profoundly shaped ideas about law as the rabbis constructed intricate classifications of gender to understand an array of cultural tensions. 

In this event, Shulamit Reinharz Director of HBI Lisa Fishbayn Joffe discusses with Max Strassfeld how Trans Talmud deftly expands and challenges how we understand gender in Judaism.