Adam Ferziger
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Adam S. Ferziger | |
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National Jewish Book Award | |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yeshiva University, Bar-Ilan University |
Doctoral advisor | Gershon Bacon |
Website | https://jewish-history.biu.ac.il/en/node/812 https://biu.academia.edu/AdamFerziger |
Adam S. Ferziger (born November 10, 1964, in the
In his capacity as a senior research fellow at Bar-Ilan's Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research, Ferziger authored major analyses of religious leadership, and of novel frameworks for promoting Jewish identity. He served for over ten years as a historian for Heritage Seminars to Eastern Europe. In the latter role he taught thousands of American youth about the legacy of Eastern European Jewry and the destruction of the
A native of
Works
Books (author):
- Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0812238655.
- Jewish Denominations – Addressing the Challenges of Modernity. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Melton Institute. 2012.
- Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism, Detroit, Mi: Wayne State University Press. 2015. National Jewish Book Award Winner
Books (editor)
- Orthodox Judaism – New Perspectives, with Professor Aviezer Ravitsky and Professor Yoseph Salmon. Magnes Press. 2006.
- Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin, Alek Epstein, and Marina Niznik, Russian Speaking Israelis at 'Home' and 'Abroad': Identity and Migration. Bar-Ilan. 2011.
- Darkei Daniel - The Paths of Daniel: Studies in Judaism and Jewish Culture in Honor of Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber. Bar-Ilan University Press. 2017
- Yitz Greenberg and Modern Orthodoxy: The Road Not Taken. Academic Studies Press 2019.
Selected Articles:
- "Fluidity and Bifurcation: Critical Biblical Scholarship and Orthodox Judaism in Israel and North America," Modern Judaism 39, 3 (Sept. 2019), 233-270.
- "Female Leadership in Male Space: The Sacralization of the Orthodox Rabbi," The Journal of Religion 98:4 (October 2018): 490-516.
- "Foreign Ashes in Sovereign Space: Cremation and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, 1931–1990," Jewish Studies Quarterly 23, 4 (2016): 290-313.
- "Hungarian Separatist Orthodoxy and the Migration of its Legacy to America: The Greenwald-Hirschenson Debate," Jewish Quarterly Review 105, 2 (2015): 250-283.
- "Beyond Bais Yaakov, Orthodox Outreach and the Emergence of Haredi Women as Religious Leaders," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 14, 1 (2015): 140-159.
- "On Fragmentary Judaism: The Jewish “Other” and the Worldview Of R. Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein," Tradition 47, 4 (2015), 34-68.
- "From Lubavitch to Lakewood: The 'Chabadization' of American Orthodoxy," Modern Judaism 33, 2 (2013), 101-124.
- "Abraham Geiger and the Denominational Approach to Jewish Religious Life," in Christian Wiese (ed.), Jüdische Existenz in de Moderne: Abraham Geiger und die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2013), 179-192.
- “Ashes to Outcasts: Cremation, Jewish Law, and Identity in Early Twentieth-century Germany,”AJS Review 36,1 (April 2012), 71–102.
- "'Outside the Shul': The American Soviet Jewry Movement and the Rise of Solidarity Orthodoxy (1964-1986)," Religion and American Culture 22, 1 (Winter 2012), 83-130
- "The Hamburg Cremation Controversy and the Diversity of German-Jewish Orthodoxy," Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 56, 1 (2011), 175-205.
- "Holocaust, Hurban, and Haredization: Pilgrimages to Eastern Europe and the Realignment of American Orthodoxy," Contemporary Jewry 31 (2011), 25-54.
- "The Road Not Taken: Rabbi Salamon Zvi Schück and the Legacy of Hungarian Orthodoxy," Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA) 79 (2011), 107-140.
- "'Create for Yourself a Congregation': Parallel Changes in the Israeli and North American Rabbinates," in Yedidya Stern and Shuki Friedman (eds.), The Rabbinate (Ramat Gan and Jerusalem: Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law and Israel Democracy Institute, 2011), 203-252 [Hebrew].
- "Between Catholic Israel and the K'rov Yisrael: Non-Jews in Conservative Synagogues (1982-2008)," Journal of Jewish Studies, LXI, 1 (Spring 2010), 88-116
- "Tradition at the Cusp of Modernity: A Sermon by Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz," Rafael Medoff (ed.), Rav Chessed: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Dr. Haskel Lookstein (New York: Ktav, 2009), 145-168.
- "Feminism and Heresy: The Construction of a Jewish Meta-Narrative," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77, 3 (September 2009), 494-546.
- "From Demonic Deviant to Drowning Brother: Reform Judaism in the Eyes of Orthodoxy (1983-2007)," Jewish Social Studies 15, 3 (Spring/Summer 2009), 56-88.
- "Religion for the Secular: The New Israeli Rabbinate," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 7, 1 (March 2008), 67-90.
- "Holy Land in Exile: The Torah MiTzion Movement – Toward a New Paradigm for Religious Zionism," in Chaim I. Waxman (ed.) Religious Zionism: Future Directions (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 2008), 373-414.
- "Church/Sect Theory and American Orthodoxy Reconsidered," in Stuart Cohen and Bernard Susser (eds.), Ambivalent Jew (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2007), 107-124.
- "The Religious Extremist as Halakhic Adjudicator – Rabbi Hayyim Sofer," in Meir Litvak and Ora Limor (eds.), Religious Extremism (Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar, 2007), 85-112 [Hebrew].
- "The Emergence of the Community Kollel: A New Model for Addressing Assimilation," Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research - Research and Position Paper #13 (Ramat Gan, 2006).
- "Orthodox Identity and the Status of Nonobservant Jews: A Reconsideration of the Approach of Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger," in Yoseph Salmon, Aviezer Ravitzky, and Adam S. Ferziger (eds.), Orthodox Judaism – New Perspectives (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2006), 179-209 [Hebrew]
- Orthodox Judaism in America in the Late 20th Century," in Binyamin Lau (ed.), A People That Dwells Alone (Tel-Aviv: Yediot Aharonot, 2006), 324-341, 478-482 [Hebrew].
- “Between Outreach and Inreach: Redrawing the Lines of the American Orthodox Rabbinate,” Modern Judaism 25 (2005), 237-263.
- “Religious Zealotry and Religious Law: Reexamining Conflict and Coexistence,” Journal of Religion (January 2004), 48-77.
- “Constituency Definition: The German-Orthodox Dilemma,” in Jack Wertheimer (ed.), Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality II (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 2004), 535-568.
- “Training American Orthodox Rabbis to Play a Role in Confronting Assimilation: Programs, Methodologies and Directions,” Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research - Research and Position Paper #4 (Ramat Gan, 2003).
- “Between “Ashkenazi” and Sepharad: An Early Modern German Rabbinic Response to Religious Pluralism in the Spanish-Portuguese Community” Studia Rosenthaliana 35, 1 (Spring, 2001), 7-22.
- “The Lookstein Legacy: An American Orthodox Rabbinical Dynasty,” Jewish History 13, 1 (Spring 1999), 127-149.
- “The Hungarian Orthodox Rabbinate and Zionism: The Case of R. Salamon Zvi Schück,” Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies 11, IIIC (1993), 273-80.
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4. Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity [1]
5. New Perspectives on the Study of Orthodoxy [2]
6. Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research and Strengthening Jewish Vitality [3]
7. Training American Orthodox Rabbis to Play a Role in Confronting Assimilation: Programs, Methodologies and Directions [4]