Marginalia

This volume covers Judaism from 70 to 640 CE.

It examines the growth of rabbinic institutions and traditions.

The Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash receive sustained attention.

The essays place these developments within late Roman Jewish life.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period — Steven T. Katz (editor)

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Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 3/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 1/3

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This volume covers Judaism from 70 to 640 CE.

It examines the growth of rabbinic institutions and traditions.

The Mishnah, Talmuds, and Midrash receive sustained attention.

The essays place these developments within late Roman Jewish life.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 4: The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period — Steven T. Katz (editor)

Publication source

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Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 3 - The Early Roman Period 4/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 2/4

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This volume follows Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world.

It examines changes in daily life, scholarship, and communal organization.

Islamic expansion reshaped where Jews lived and how they traded.

The essays connect local histories across a broad geographical setting.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World — Phillip I. Lieberman (editor)

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Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 2/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3

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This volume follows Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world.

It examines changes in daily life, scholarship, and communal organization.

Islamic expansion reshaped where Jews lived and how they traded.

The essays connect local histories across a broad geographical setting.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World — Phillip I. Lieberman (editor)

Publication source

Explore: History & Judaism

Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 4 - The Late Roman - Rabbinic Period 4/4 · Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 2/3

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This volume follows Jewish communities in the medieval Islamic world.

It examines changes in daily life, scholarship, and communal organization.

Islamic expansion reshaped where Jews lived and how they traded.

The essays connect local histories across a broad geographical setting.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World — Phillip I. Lieberman (editor)

Publication source

Explore: History & Judaism

Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 1/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 3/3

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This volume examines medieval Jewish life in the Christian world.

It follows changes associated with the growth of Western Christendom.

The essays consider Jewish communities and their surrounding societies.

Religious and cultural developments accompany the history of medieval Jewry.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World — Robert Chazan (editor)

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Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 2/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3

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This volume examines medieval Jewish life in the Christian world.

It follows changes associated with the growth of Western Christendom.

The essays consider Jewish communities and their surrounding societies.

Religious and cultural developments accompany the history of medieval Jewry.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World — Robert Chazan (editor)

Publication source

Explore: History & Judaism

Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 5 - Judaism in the Medieval Islamic World 3/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 2/3

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This volume examines medieval Jewish life in the Christian world.

It follows changes associated with the growth of Western Christendom.

The essays consider Jewish communities and their surrounding societies.

Religious and cultural developments accompany the history of medieval Jewry.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World — Robert Chazan (editor)

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Explore: History & Judaism

Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 1/3 · Cambridge History of Judaism 6 - The Middle Ages: The Christian World 3/3

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This volume introduces Jewish history under Persian rule.

It places the period within the wider history of Judaism.

Historical sources frame questions about Jewish communities and institutions.

The collection establishes the starting point for the Cambridge series.

Series: History & Judaism

The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 1: Introduction: The Persian Period — W. D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein (editors)

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Related episodes: Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 1/2 · Cambridge History of Judaism 2 - The Hellenistic Age 2/2

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Yann LeCun’s proposal for autonomous machine intelligence asks how AI might learn models of the world through observation.

This conversation connects his 2022 position paper with the 2024 V-JEPA study by Adrien Bardes and colleagues, including LeCun.

V-JEPA learns by predicting representations of missing video regions rather than reconstructing every pixel.

The paper evaluates those learned representations on image and video recognition tasks.

The episode explores the connection between that learning objective and the broader ambition of building machines that can understand and act in the world.

Series: AI Papers

Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video (V-JEPA) — Adrien Bardes and colleagues

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Additional source: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence (Yann LeCun, 2022)

Explore: AI & Computer Science · AI Papers

Related episodes: Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People (Brenden Lake et al.) · Neuromorphic Intelligence: Learning, Architectures and Large-Scale Systems (Shuangming Yang & Badong Chen)

Authors: Adrien Bardes, Quentin Garrido, Jean Ponce, Xinlei Chen, Michael Rabbat, Yann LeCun, Mahmoud Assran, and Nicolas Ballas

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