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 Eli Black Professor of Jewish
Studies
Department of Religion
Education
- Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania
Jewish Studies or Associated Courses Taught
- JWST10/HIST94.8: History and Culture of the Jews I: The Classical
Period
- JWST11/HIST94.9: History and Culture of the Jews II: The Modern
Period
- JWST27.3/ENG60.2: Islam and Judaism: Europe's Orientalist
Visions
- JWST37.1/HIST58: History of the Holocaust
- JWST70/ENG65.2/REL81: The Jew in the Protestant Imagination: The
Merchant of Venice
- JWST 80 (JWST80/HIST95): History of
Holocaust Historiography
Office: 308 Thornton Hall
E-mail: Susannah.Heschel@Dartmouth.EDU
Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the
Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in
Religious Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and was
awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Colorado College in 2005.
Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the
19th and 20th centuries, and her numerous publications include a
prize-winning monograph, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus
(University of Chicago Press), which won a National Jewish Book Award, and a
forthcoming book, The Aryan Jesus: Christians, Nazis and the
Bible (Princeton University Press). She has also edited
several volumes, most recently, Betrayal: German Churches and the
Holocaust, with Robert P. Ericksen, and
Insider/Outsider: American Jews and
Multiculturalism, with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky, and has
written extensively on feminism and Judaism. Several years ago she
published a volume of her father's writings, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual
Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel, with a
biographical introduction. Prof. Heschel has also written extensively on
feminist issues related to Jewish Studies and edited a classic
collection, On Being a Jewish Feminist, first published in 1983.
Prof. Heschel served as the Abba Hillel Associate Professor of Jewish
Studies at Case Western Reserve University from 1991 to 1998, and as founding
director of the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies.
She has served as a visiting professor at Princeton University
and the University of Cape Town, and has held the Martin Buber visiting
professorship in Jewish religious philosophy at the University of
Frankfort. In 1997-98 she was a fellow at the National Humanities
Center. Since 1999 Prof. Heschel has served on the academic
advisory committee of the Research Center of the U.S. Holocaust
Museum.
In 1992 she spoke on Judaism and the environment at the 1992 UN Earth
Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1994 at the UN conference on
Population and Development, in Cairo. She has been a commentator on the
Jim Lehrer News Hour and a contributor to The Nation,
Dissent, Commentary, and Tik-kun magazines.
In addition to her academic work, she has written and lectured frequently on
Jewish issues, served for several years as the co-chair of Tikkun, with
Michael Lerner and Cornel West, sits on the advisory board of Brit Tzedek
v'Shalom, and is an enthusiastic member of the National Council of Jewish
Women.
Publications
- New Views of First-Century Jewish and Christian Self-Definition,
edited with Fabian Udoh et. al. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,
forthcoming).
- Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1998)
Winner, 1998 National Jewish Book Award.
Winner, 2000 Award, Abraham Geiger College, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays by Abraham Joshua
Heschel. Edited and with Introduction. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May,
1996)
- Introduction reprinted: "Abraham Heschel," Tikkun Magazine
(March-April, 1996)
- When Jesus Was an Aryan: Protestant Theology in Nazi Germany
(under preparation)
- Betrayal: The German Churches and the Holocaust, edited with
Robert P. Ericksen (Minneapolis: Augsburg-Fortress Press, 1999)
- Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, edited with
David Biale and Michael Galchinsky (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998)
- Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion, editor, sections on
Ancient Near East, Hebrew Bible, Judaism. Edited with Serinity Young, E. Ann
Matter, et. al. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998)
Winner, 1998 American Library Association Outstanding Reference Award
- Critical Issues in Modern Religion, with Roger A. Johnson, Ernest
Wallwork, et. al. (Prentice-Hall, 1989)
- On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Reader. Edited and with
Introductions. (Schocken Books, 1983; second edition with new introduction,
1995)
- Introduction reprinted: "On Being a Jewish Feminist," All American
Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind, ed. Johnnetta B. Cole (New York:
Free Press, 1986)
- Introduction translated and reprinted: "Für eine feministische Theologie
des Judentums" in: Lust an der Erkenntnis: Jüdische Theologie im 20.
Jahrhundert, ed. Schalom Ben-Chorin and Verena Lenzen. (Munich: Piper
Verlag, 1988)
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