Beth A. Berkowitz
Professor and Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion at Barnard College, author and scholar specializing in rabbinic literature and the study of animals in Jewish texts.
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Feb 16, 2026 • 1h 11min
Beth A. Berkowitz, "What Animals Teach us About Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature" (U California Press, 2026)
Beth A. Berkowitz, a Barnard professor who studies rabbinic literature and animals, explores how biblical and rabbinic texts reimagine bonds between species. She traces four animal-family laws, everyday animal intimacy in antiquity, market and legal practices around animal kinship, and how expanding family challenges assumptions about species and care.
