David Kraemer, Ph.D. is
a Senior CLAL Associate. He is the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and
Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where
he has also taught Ancient Jewish History and Jewish Thought, and from which
he completed a Ph.D., and an M.A. in Talmud and Rabbinics.
He is the author of
The Meanings of Death in Rabbinic Judaism (Routledge), Reading the
Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature, Responses to Suffering in Classical
Rabbinic Literature and The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual
History of the Babylonian Talmud. He is also the editor of The
Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory (all Oxford University Press). His
latest book is on the history of Jewish eating practices, Jewish
Eating and Identity throughout the Ages, (Routledge,
April 2007).