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Maoz Kahana

Dr. Maoz Kahana

Maoz Kahana (PhD) is a senior lecturer in the Jewish History Department, Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on deciphering and elucidating rabbinical literature and Jewish law and legal cultures within the social and intellectual contexts of the early modern and modern European history as well as its minority Jewish culture.
A Game of Draughts at Cafe Lamblin by Louis Leopold Boilly

Coffee Houses Open on Shabbat… With Rabbinic Approval

Records from 18th century Prague show that the opening of Jewish coffee houses on Shabbat enjoyed the approval of the city’s rabbinic leadership.

Dr. Maoz Kahana | 16.06.19

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