James Redfield

James Adam Redfield is associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University and visiting associate professor in Jewish and European Civilization at the University of Chicago. He writes mainly on rabbinic literature, with a focus on rabbinic theories of law and culture, ethnography, travel, and narrative. His monograph, Adventures of Rabbah & Friends: The Talmud’s Strange Tales and their Afterlife, appeared in 2025 with Brown University Press, and Talmud /and/ Philosophy (ed. with Sergey Dolgopolski) with Indiana University Press in 2024. His edition and translation of the Yiddish writings of M.Y. Berdichevsky, From a Distant Relation, appeared with Syracuse University Press in 2021.