Scholar In Residence

Sociological Upheavals of the Jewish Community in the Past Century
Professor Rabbi Dr. Adam Ferziger
January 28th-30th, 2017

Friday Night Oneg, 8:00 PM - “Beyond Bais Yaakov: The Silent Revolution of Haredi Women”

Shabbos Morning Sermon - “Beyond Sectarianism: The Silent Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism”

Shabbos Afternoon Class, 4:40 PM - “Does Israeli Religious Zionism Have an American Equivalent?”

Sunday Morning Presentation, 10:00 AM - “Why Would a Rosh Yeshiva Seek a Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard? Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein” l and the Concept of Fragmentary Judaism”

Rabbi Professor Adam S. Ferziger holds the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for Research of the Torah and Derekh Erez Movement in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He is co-convener of the annual Oxford Summer Institute for Modern and Contemporary Judaism, and a senior associate of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

An intellectual and social historian, Rabbi Professor Ferziger’s research focuses on Jewish religious movements, religious leadership, and religious responses to secularization and assimilation in modern and contemporary North America, Europe and Israel. He is the author or editor of six books including: Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); Orthodox Judaism – New Perspectives (Magnes Press, 2006); Jewish Denominations: Addressing the Challenges of Modernity (Melton Institute/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012); and Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism (Wayne State University Press, 2015), which was accorded the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies.