Prof. Gershon Greenberg - Short Biography

Prof. Gershon Greenberg’s field is the history of religious thought through the Holocaust. He is currently researching Jewish religious practice in the camps and ghettos at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. He is the Professor of Religion at the American University in Washington D.C., and has served as visiting professor of Jewish thought at the following universities: Hebrew University, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University, and Haifa University in Israel, and at the Free University in Berlin. He the recipient of a Skirball Fellowship in Hebrew Studies at Oxford and was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship for Lithuania. He has published thirty articles and book chapters about wartime Jewish religious thinkers and movements in reaction to the catastrophe as well as a three-volume annotated bibliography of Jewish religious literature and the Holocaust through the war.

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