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Plagiarism, Citation, and Redemption

March 24, 2015 admin Comments 1 comment

Plagiarism, Citation, and Redemption By Jeremy Brown Jeremy Brown is the author of New Heavens and a New Earth; the Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought. He writes on science, medicine and the Talmud at Talmudology.com Plagiarism, it seems, has never been so widespread. Remember How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, the 2006 debut novel from Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan? The author had plagiarized several passages from others (including Salman Rushdie) and the publisher Little Brown recalled and destroyed…

The Greatest Story in the Annals of Jewish Book Collecting

January 28, 2015 admin Comments 2 comments

The Greatest Story in the Annals of Jewish Book Collecting By Jeremy Brown Jeremy Brown is the author of New Heavens and a New Earth; The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought. He writes on science, medicine and the Talmud at Talmudology.com As we approach the end of Masechet Yevamot in the Daf Yomi cycle, it seems appropriate to reflect on a legendary story in the annals of Jewish bibliography. This story involves King Henry VIII, the laws of Yevamot, and the…

A Preliminary Review of The New Koren Talmud Bavli: A Goldilocks edition

July 26, 2012 admin Comments 105 comments

A Preliminary Review of The New Koren Talmud Bavli: A Goldilocks edition by Jeremy Brown Jeremy Brown lives outside of Washington DC. He is the author of New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought, to be published later this year by Oxford University Press. We are only weeks away from finishing the seven-year cycle of Daf Yomi. Right on cue, publishers are ready to meet the demand of those ready to study Daf Yomi the first…

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