Going West

<p>This new book by Reuven Kiperwasser examines the social cultural and religious aspects of third- to sixth-century narratives involving rabbinic figures migrating between Babylonia and Palestine. Kiperwasser draws on migration and mobility studies comparative literature humor and satire studies as well as social history to reveal how border-crossing rabbis were seen as exporting features of their previous eastern context into their new western homes and vice versa. Through their writing rabbinic authors articulated the nature and legitimacy of their own scholastic practices knowledge and authority in relationship to their internal others. </p>