Kalmin, Richard

Richard Kalmin is Theodore R. Racoosin Chair of Rabbinic Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of the award-winning "Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine" and several other books about the literature and history of the Jews of late antiquity. The research and writing of "Migrating Tales" was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.