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).
