“The Saint, The Queen, and the Joker,” a recent three-part series offered by the Rutgers University Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, shared how folklore or aggada (narrative material, as parables, maxims or anecdotes) can help us understand Sephardic culture.
Donna Robinson Divine is Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Emirita Professor of Government at Smith College. The Idea of the Jewish State by Ben Halpern (her teacher at Brandeis) exam.