Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel | |
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Born | May 15, 1956 |
Nationality | American |
Parent | Abraham Joshua Heschel (father) |
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Alma mater | Trinity College, Harvard Divinity School, University of Pennsylvania |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Dartmouth College |
Website | https://faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu/susannah-heschel |
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Susannah Heschel (born 15 May 1956) is an American scholar and professor of
Biography
Susannah Heschel is the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, and Sylvia, a concert pianist.[1] In 1972, Heschel applied to the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, which did not ordain women at that time and turned her down.[3] In 1995, she married James Louis (Yaakov) Aronson, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, with whom she has two children.[4]
Academic career
Heschel received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. She served as lecturer and then assistant professor of religious studies at
She serves on the Beirat of the Zentrum Jüdische Studien in Berlin. In 1992–93 she was the Martin Buber visiting professor of Jewish religious philosophy at the University of Frankfurt; she has also taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Cape Town, and Princeton University.[1]
Views and opinions
Heschel started a custom in the early 1980s of including an orange on the
Social activism
In 2006, Heschel served on the
Awards and recognition
Heschel is an honorary trustee of the Heschel School in New York. She has received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Colorado College, an honorary doctorate of sacred letters from the University of St. Michael's College, an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College, an honorary doctorate from the Augustana Theologische Hochschule, the John M. Manley Huntington award from Dartmouth, and the Jacobus Family Fellowship from Dartmouth, and she was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa.[10]
Published work
Her monograph Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998, University of Chicago Press) won the Abraham Geiger Prize of the
She has also co-edited, with
References
- ^ a b c d "The Feminist Revolution: Susannah Heschel". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ "Susannah Heschel". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Eilberg, Amy (May 5, 2010). "An Ordination First, and What Followed". The Forward. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Pashman, Manya Brachear (2022-03-30). "Susannah Heschel: The Rabbi's Daughter". Moment Magazine. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ a b c d Cohen, Tamara. "An Orange on the Seder Plate". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ a b Eisehnbach-Budner, Deborah; Borns-Weil, Alex (22 August 2010). "The Background to the Background of the Orange on the Seder Plate and a Ritual of Inclusion". Ritualwell. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ "Michael Aram Pomegranate Seder Plate — A Place for an Orange". ModernTribe.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2014. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Kessler, E.J. (Nov 25, 2005). "Zionist Election Has High Stakes, Strange Pairings". The Forward.
- ^ Mobius (Jan 14, 2006). "http://jewschool.com/2006/01/14/9899/elect-your-reps-for-the-35th-world-zionist-congress/". JewSchool.
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- ^ "Susannah Heschel". Dartmouth.edu. 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ a b "Religion and the Quest to Contain Violence". Brandeis University. March 14, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
- ^ Greene, Daniel (November 22, 2007). "Voices on Antisemitism Podcast". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ "Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism". Publishers Weekly. September 10, 2001. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
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