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 Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies
Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies in the
Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. She received her PhD in Religious
Studies at 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
1983.
Prof. Heschel 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 Frankfurt. 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 Memorial 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 Tikkun
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.
Courses
2008 Spring
- Non-Teaching Resident Term
2008 Summer
- Jewish Studies11/History 94.9 11 (11)
2008 Fall
- Non-Teaching Resident Term
2009 Winter
- 85 (10A) Senior Colloquium: The Invention of Religion (Frankenberry and
Heschel)
2009 Spring
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