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Susannah Heschel
Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and Author; Known for "Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus"
Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and chair of the Jewish Studies Program and a faculty member of the Religion Department. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship, Jewish scholarship on Islam, and the history of anti-Semitism. Her numerous publications include "Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus," which won a National Jewish Book Award; "The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany"; and "Jüdischer Islam: Islam und Deutsch-Jüdische Selbstbestimmung." She has also co-written "The Woman Question in Jewish Studies" with Sarah Imhoff.
Heschel has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Frankfurt and Cape Town as well as Princeton, and she is the recipient of numerous grants, including from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, and a yearlong Rockefeller fellowship at the National Humanities Center. In 2011-12, she held a fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and during the winter term of 2024, she held a research fellowship at the Maimonides Institute at the University of Hamburg.
Heschel has received many honors, including the Mendelssohn Prize of the Leo Baeck Institute, and five honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. Currently, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and is writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam. She is an elected member of the American Society for the Study of Religion and the American Academy for Jewish Research.
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