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Shana Schwartz

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Shana Schwartz is a Straus scholar at Yeshiva University pursuing a B.A. in Biology. She plans to go into medicine and has a keen interest in bioethics.

Titus and the Tripartite Soul: A Lesson on Leadership and Jewish Survival

With a novel reading of Josephus and Gittin, Shana Schwartz proposes that the tragedy of the second hurban and the mystery of subsequent Jewish survival may be understood by reference to the physiological knowledge available in classical antiquity.