Susannah heschel biography examples

American academic (born 1956)

Susannah Heschel (born 15 May 1956) is an American scholar and professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College.^[1] The author and editor of numerous books and articles, she is a Guggenheim Fellow.^[2] Heschel's scholarship focuses on Jewish and Christian interactions in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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 fr Susannah Heschel - Faculty Directory CUP