Moulie Vidas is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Reli­gion and Juda­ic Stud­ies at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, spe­cial­iz­ing in Tal­mu­dic lit­er­a­ture. He is the author of Tra­di­tion and the For­ma­tion of the Tal­mud (2014). He was raised in Tel Aviv and now lives in New York.