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Daniel M Herskowitz

Smart Family Professor in Judaic Studies
Religious Studies

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Smart Family Professor in Judaic Studies · 2025 - Present Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Religious Studies · 2025 - Present Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Calendar reform and Orthodox activity in the Second Vatican Council

Journal Article Journal of Jewish Studies · March 1, 2025 Were Jewish Orthodox leaders involved in the Second Vatican Council (1962-66)? Common knowledge has it that they refused to cooperate with the Church during its deliberations on the drafting of the 'Document on the Jews' - the document that eventually evol ... Full text Cite

Hermann Cohen's Shadow Dialogue with the Ritschlian School on Atonement

Journal Article Neue Zeitschrift Fur Systematische Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie · January 1, 2025 The present study examines the conceptual relationship between the Jewish neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen and the Ritschlian school, the dominant school of Protestant theology of his time. Its point of departure is that much can be illuminated in Coh ... Full text Cite

Franz Rosenzweig'sAccountof Revelation in Light of Its Protestant Background

Journal Article Harvard Theological Review · July 1, 2024 In the subsection “Grammar of Eros (The Language of Love)” in section 2 of book 2 of The Star of Redemption, the beating heart of the work, Franz Rosenzweig offers a peculiar portrait of the event of revelation.What is presented is a dramatization of the e ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Wolfson College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) · 2018 Ph.D.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) · 2013 M.A.
Columbia University · 2007 B.A.

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