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Teaching

My first full time teaching job (1982鈥�85) was at Stanford University, in its Great Works Program. The passion for reading texts closely, and for thinking about interpretation involves has followed me into all the other courses I have taught. When I came to Franklin and 四虎影院, in 1985, I became responsible for the introduction to Religious Studies, in which, through its many permutations, I focused on classical texts from a variety of traditions, against the background of the various theories about religion that might be helpful in the art of interpretation. I also devised a variety of upper division seminars, Religion and Politics, Modern Religion Thinkers, Modern Jewish Thought, as well as courses intended for first- and second year- students: Literature of Exile, What is Education? Catastrophe in the Modern Imagination, Religion and Literature, Modern Jewish Literature. Always, my aim was to make students careful readers, that is, as aware as possible of the assumptions they were bringing to the table. I retired in 2018.

Scholarship

I graduated from UCLA in 1982, with a PhD in History. At the time, the History Department included a Chair in the History of Religions, held by my adviser, Dr. Kees Bolle. My interests were in the various assumptions ruling the study of religion since the nineteenth century, as well as in modern Christian and Jewish thought.  My dissertation, Freedom from Ideology: Secrecy in Modern Expression (Garland, 1987), explored four great European authors in the first half of the twentieth century, who tried to free themselves from the political camps of their times, appealing to a reality that those camps ignored. It was an attempt to speak about transcendence without reverting to a directly Christian or Jewish vocabulary, although two of the authors were Christian and two Jewish. This early exploration set my research agenda for the rest of my academic life. I have been interested in the intersection of religion and politics, in the way great literature gives us access to a transcendence we would otherwise miss, and in the way the "secular" and the "religious" always cross paths and cannot be studied merely in opposition. A selection of my publications follows:

Books

by Emmanuel Levinas, translated and with an introduction by Annette Aronowicz (Indiana University Press, (1990, 2019)

(Stanford, 1998)

(Academic Studies Press, 2021)

The Thought at the Back of the Mind: Five Explorations of the Human in the Age of the Natural Sciences, forthcoming (Wipf and Stock, 2024)

Selected Articles

History and Theory 32:2 (1993) 101-118. Reprinted in Bruce K Ward, trans. Notes on Bergson and Descartes: Philosophy, Christianity, and Modernity in Contestation (Eugene: Oregon: Cascade Books, 2019), 235-258.

, (London: Freund Publishing House, 1999), 65-100. Reprinted in Modes of Educational Translation, eds., Jonathan Cohen & Eli Holtzer, (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2008), 97-129.

鈥�,鈥� Jewish Social Studies, 9:1 (2002), 95-142.

鈥� Jewish Quarterly Review, 98:3 (2008), 355-388.

鈥淭he First Play About the Shoah on the Israeli Stage: Reflections on Ideology and Art,鈥� in Hebrew translation ("Hamahazeh ha rishon al haShoah be teatron ha Israeli: Harhurim al ideologia ve omanut,鈥� Bamot u Masah 9 (Dec. 2012), 22-39.

in Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich and Jacek Patyka, Jews and non-Jews: Memories and Interactions from the Perspective of Cultural Studies (Frankfort: Peter Lang, 2015),103-113.

Bibliotekarz Podlaski 3/2023: 343-363.