Congratulations to Prof. Gregg Gardner! His book, Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity (University of California Press, 2022) has won the 2022 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for the category of Scholarship.
The book’s description, found on the University of California Press’ website, reads:
“Charity is central to the Jewish tradition. In this formative study, Gregg E. Gardner takes on this concept to examine the beginnings of Jewish thought on care for the poor. Focusing on writings of the earliest rabbis from the third century c.e., Gardner shows how the ancient rabbis saw the problem of poverty primarily as questions related to wealth—how it is gained and lost, how it distinguishes rich from poor, and how to convince people to part with their wealth. Contributing to our understanding of the history of religions, Wealth, Poverty, and Charity in Jewish Antiquity demonstrates that a focus on wealth can provide us with a fuller understanding of charity in Jewish thought and the larger world from which Judaism and Christianity emerged.”
Check out Prof. Gardner’s acceptance speech this past October at York University here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cw7eRVJCDI
To learn more about the award, visit https://www.cjlawards.ca/.
