Congratulations to Professor Jordan Rosenblum on the publication of his most recent book Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig, published this October by NYU Press! For more about the book and how it came to be, check out Professor Rosenblum’s Blog Post “Not So(w) Kosher? Nine Jewish Facts About the Pig” for Jewish Book Council. The book has also been reviewed here and featured in the press here.
Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism, the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the current director of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies (CJS). In 2009, he was a Starr Fellow at Harvard University. His research focuses on the literature, law, and social history of the rabbinic movement in general and, in particular, on rabbinic food regulations. He is also the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2020); The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, 2016; paperback edition, 2019); and Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism (Cambridge University Press, 2010; paperback edition, 2014). His full list of publications is available on his faculty profile page.