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Susannah Heschel

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Professor of Religion; Jewish Studies Program, past chair

Recent Scholarship:

"From Jesus to Shylock: Feminist Views of Christianity's Jews," Harvard Theological Review (under revision).

"Christ's Passion: Homoeroticism and the Origins of Christianity," The Passion of Christ, Timothy Beal and Tod Linafeldt, eds. (University of Chicago Press, 2006).

"Gender Issues," Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, Modern Judaism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

"Does Atrocity Have a Gender? Women in the SS," Lessons and Legacies, Jeffry M. Diefendorf (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004).

"Gender and Agency in the Feminist Historiography of Jewish Identity," Journal of Religion, vol. 43, no. 4 (2004).

"Theological Bulimia: Christianity and Its Dejudaization," in After the Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences, Michael Berenbaum and Shawn Landres, eds. (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004).

"Family Celebrations as the Site of Transmission of Jewish Identity: A Feminist View of Gender and Jewish Holidays, Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie 18 (2003).

Co-editor, Encyclopedia of Women and World Religion (1998).

"Orange on the Seder Plate," The Women's Passover Companion (2003).

"Genre et Historiographie Juive," Raisons Politiques: Etudes de Pensée Politiques (Paris: Winter, 2003).

"Victims and Heroes: Gender Stereotyping in Scholarship on the Holocaust," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, (Hebrew University, 2002).

"Emanuel Levinas in Feministischer Perspektive," Kirche und Isreal vol.15, No.1.

Courses Taught:

Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Judaism
Women and Religion


 

Last Updated: 6/30/06