Susannah Heschel
Susannah Heschel (born May 15, 1956 in the USA ) is an American university professor and author who became known for her publications on religious and Jewish topics and feminism.
Life
Susannah Heschel is the daughter of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel . She has been the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College since 2005 . In 1972 she applied to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City for admission to the faculty of the seminary, knowing full well that it had not wanted to appoint women to this position until then. She was visiting professor at Princeton University , the University of Cape Town and the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .
In 2006 she was the representative of the Green Zionist Alliance at the World Zionist Congress .
honors and awards
- Honorary Doctorate from Colorado College , Colorado Springs, USA.
- Honorary Doctorate from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto , Canada.
- Honorary Doctor theologiae from Trinity College , Hartford , Connecticut, USA.
- Honorary doctorate from Augustana, University of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria , Neuendettelsau.
- John M. Manley Huntingdon Award from Dartmouth College.
- Jacobus Family Fellow of Dartmouth College.
- Honorary member of the Phi Beta Kappa student corporation .
- 2000: Abraham Geiger Prize of the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin.
- 2009: Carnegie Foundation Scholarship for Studies on Jewish Scholars and Islam .
Publications
- 1994: Theologians for Hitler. Walter Grundmann and the Institute for Research into and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . In: Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz : Christian anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. Theological and church programs of German Christians . Writings from the work of the Evangelical Academy. (Arnoldshainer texts 85). Verlag Haag and Herchen, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-86137-187-1 .
- 1996: The Nazification of Christian Theology. Walter Grundmann and the Institute for Research into and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . In: Texts and Contexts, Volume 19, pp. 33–52.
- 1998: Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus . University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1998, ISBN 0-226-32959-3 .
- 2001: The Jewish Jesus and Christianity: Abraham Geiger's Challenge to Christian Theology. Jüdische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin, ISBN 3-934658-04-0 .
- 2003: The Theological Faculty at the University of Jena as "a Stronghold of National Socialism". In: Uwe Hoßfeld among other things: Combative science. Studies at the University of Jena under National Socialism. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna, ISBN 3-412-04102-5 .
- 2008: The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey / London, ISBN 978-0-691-12531-2 .
- 2012: German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism. In: New German Critique , Vol. 39, No. 3.
- Presentation without a date: The science of Judaism and Islam: a role model for Germany in the 21st century? College of Jewish Studies at the Humboldt University , Berlin. [1] .
- 2018: Jewish Islam. Islam and Jewish-German self-determination. Series of publications by the Forum Transregional Studies, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-95757-341-4 .
- as editor
- 1983: On Being a Jewish Feminist, a Reader. Schocken Books, New York 1983, ISBN 0-8052-3837-9 .
- 1999: with Robert P. Ericksen: Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust . Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, ISBN 0-8006-2931-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Susannah Heschel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Susannah Heschel at perlentaucher.de
- Susannah Heschel's biography at Dartmouth College
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heschel, Susannah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American professor of Jewish studies and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |