Gershon Greenberg

Battelle-Tompkins 114, (202) 885-2912, greenbe@american.edu

Areas of specialization
Professor Greenberg specializes in modern Jewish philosophy, America and the Holy Land, and religious and philosophical meanings of the Holocaust.

Professional activities
He is the author of three definitive bibliographies of religious thought and the Holocaust, Holy Land in American Religious Thought: 1620-1948, and numerous articles on German-Jewish philosophy, history of Jewish thought in America and religious responses through the Holocaust. He has served as visiting professor in the departments of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew, Bar Ilan, Haifa and Tel Aviv Universities in Israel and serves as consultant to the International Archives Division of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Courses taught
Religion in America, Western Philosophy, Religious Heritage of the West, Forms of the Sacred, and Meaning and Purpose in the Arts

Education
He holds a Ph.D. in the Joint Program in Religion: Religious Philosophy from Columbia University (1969) and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Bard College (1961).

 

 

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