Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch and Contemporary Orthodoxy - A Panel Discussion with all the Speakers
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Dr. Edward Breuer
Edward Breuer, a native of Montreal, completed his doctoral work at Harvard and taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Loyola University. Since moving with his family to Israel in 2001, he has been teaching in the Department of Jewish History and the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University. His research and publications have centered upon the Jewish Enlightenment and the writings of Moses Mendelssohn. He is the author of The Limits of Enlightenment.
Dr. Marc Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton. A graduate of Brandeis (BA) and Harvard (PhD), he is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews and is a popular scholar in residence at synagogues around the world. He has written Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy and The Limits of Orthodox Theology, both of which were National Jewish Book Award Finalists. Other books of his include Saul Lieberman and the Orthodox, Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters, and Changing…
Dr. Rachel Heuberger
Rachel Heuberger, Dr. phil., is Head of the Jewish Division of the Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (University Library).She attended Hebrew University, Heidelberg-Frankfurt, and Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.She is also a member of the German-North-American Resources Partnership as Partner of Harvard Judaica Division for Jewish Studies, member of the Council of the Frankfurt Jewish Community, and member of the executive board of the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Verein zur Gründung eines Jüdischen Gymnasiums in Frankfurt am MainAs librarian and cultural…