
Susannah Heschel Ph.D.
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus and The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany as well as edited volumes, including Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism and Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Cape Town, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, and Princeton, and has held research grants from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and is studying the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam. Her first book on that topic has just been published in German, Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung. She has also just published a co-edited volume with Umar Ryad, The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism.
Sessions in which Susannah Heschel Ph.D. participates
Sunday 31 March, 2019
Watch the recorded live stream.Dr. Heschel will reflect on the enduring nature of her father's legacy and our role elevating our rabbinate through the study of sacred texts, the pursuit of justice, acknowledging the holy in our lives, and how his legacy nurtures our moral leadership and sacred purpose as Reform rabbis in the 21st Century. Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth Col...