Tanny, Jarrod M

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Dr. Tanny is Associate Professor of History and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Dr. received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on Russian and Jewish history. His first book, City of Rogues and Schnorrers (Indiana University Press, 2011), examines how the city of Odessa was mythologized as a Jewish city of sin, celebrated and vilified for its Jewish gangsters, pimps, bawdy musicians, and comedians. Since then, he has published many scholarly essays on Jewish Humor. His second book The Seinfeld Talmud (Academica Press, 2023) a satiric take on the hit TV series, in which the great rabbis of the Talmudic era gather in the Yeshiva to discuss and debate the issues raised in each Seinfeld episode weighed against Judaic law. He has also published numerous op-eds on antisemitism in The Forward, The Times of Israel, and The Jewish Journal, Tablet Magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books. In 2022, Dr. Tanny founded the Jewish Studies Zionist Network.
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