Career
As director of the Library, Kraemer "oversees the most extensive collection of Judaica—rare and contemporary—in the Western hemisphere". Kraemer"s books include:
The Mind of the Talmud: An Intellectual History of the Babylonian Talmud (Oxford, 1990)
Responses to Suffering in Classical Rabbinic Literature (Oxford, 1995)
Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature (Oxford, 1996)
Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages (Routledge, 2007)
He is editor of The Jewish Family: Metaphor and Memory (Oxford, 1989). Kraemer is regularly quoted in the United States national, local and Jewish press as an authority on questions related to Jewish practice and the study of Talmud.
An authority on the laws of kashrut, he has written about the increased stringencies associated with the observance of kashrut.
Kramer has pointed out that many who observe kashrut today would not be willing to tolerate the ritual standards of renowned rabbinic authorities such as Akiva, Rashi or Joseph Caro.
