Join Joshua Foer, co-founder of Lehrhaus and Sefaria, for a text-based tour of 3,000 years of Jewish anxiety about emerging forms of media. From a memorized oral law to a written Talmud, the printing press to Sefaria, we'll explore how Jews have continually wrestled with Marshall McLuhan's maxim that "the medium is the message."
Journalist and entrepreneur Joshua Foer is the author of the international bestseller Moonwalking with Einstein, which has been published in 37 languages, and which was a finalist for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and other publications. He is the co-founder and chairman of Atlas Obscura and the co-founder of several Jewish enterprises including Sefaria, Sukkah City, Leviathan, and most recently, Lehrhaus.