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Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

Twice Blest: Exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible

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Welcome to Twice Blest, a podcast exploring Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible from the Yeshiva University Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. Hosted by Dr. Shaina Trapedo, Twice Blest brings you conversations with faith leaders, scholars, and writers that bridge the wisdom of Judaic and classical texts so we can live more informed and fulfilling intellectual and spiritual lives on an individual and communal level.

Recent Episodes

  • "Remember me": Ghosts and the Afterlife in Hamlet and Rabbinic and Medieval Jewish Literature — With Dr. Susan Weissman

    3 years ago

  • “I will better the instruction”: Sufferance and Vengeance in The Merchant of Venice and Jewish Thought — With Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner

    4 years ago

  • "That foul defacer of God’s handiwork": Bodies in the Hebrew Bible and Richard III — With Dr. Jeffrey R. Wilson

    4 years ago

  • “The sin upon my head”: The Hebrew Bible in Shakespeare’s Henry V — With Professor Paul Cantor

    4 years ago

  • “The prop that doth sustain my house”: Jewish Women, Widowers, and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice — With Dr. Chaya Sima Koenigsberg

    4 years ago

  • “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends”: Hamlet and Torah Tradition — With Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman

    4 years ago

  • “Speak what we feel”: Biblical Blessings and Beyond in Shakespeare’s King Lear — With Professor Julia Reinhard Lupton

    4 years ago

  • “His deputy anointed in His sight”: Kingship in Shakespeare and the Hebrew Bible — With Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik

    4 years ago

  • Introducing Twice Blest From the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought of Yeshiva University

    4 years ago