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THE RABBI SIDNEY H. BROOKS LECTURE Guest Speaker: Marc Saperstein
Professor Saperstein received a BA summa cum laude at Harvard, an MA at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, rabbinical ordination at the New York School of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and a Ph.D. at Harvard. He taught on the Harvard faculty for nine years, holding the first regular faculty position in Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School; he has been visiting professor at Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania. Saperstein is the author of four books, Decoding the Rabbis (Harvard University Press, 1980), the widely acclaimed Moments of Crisis in Jewish-Christian Relations (SCM-Trinity Press International, 1989), Jewish Preaching 1200-1800 (Yale University Press, 1989), which won the National Jewish Book Award in the area of Jewish thought, and "Your Voice Like a Ram's Horn" (HUC Press, 1996), also granted a National Jewish Book Award. He has also written more than 30 articles and reviews on various aspects of Jewish history, literature, and thought. Most recently, he edited Witness from the Pulpit: Topical Sermons, 1933-1980, a collection of 52 sermons by his father, Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein, to which he provided historical introductions and annotations. Dr. Saperstein has been awarded the Henry Fellowship, the Kent Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies research grant, and research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1994 he was elected to be a fellow of the prestigious American Academy for Jewish Research, and this year he was elected Treasurer of the Academy. He is currently Book Review Editor for the Association of Jewish Studies Review. |
Marc Saperstein is the Charles E. Smith
Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Program in Judaic
Studies at the George Washington University. Previously,
beginning in 1986, he held the newly established Gloria M.
Goldstein Chair in Jewish History and Thought at Washington
University in St Louis; he served as Chairman of its Program in
Jewish and Near Eastern Studies from 1989-1997.