Susannah Heschel
Author
1956 –
Who is Susannah Heschel?
Susannah Heschel is Dartmouth College's Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies, an award-winning author, and the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel.
Her monograph Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus won Germany's Geiger Prize and a National Jewish Book Award. She has also written The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany, and the foreword to Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism, and has edited Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays of Abraham Joshua Heschel, Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust, Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism, and On Being a Jewish Feminist.
She has received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Colorado College, an honorary doctorate of sacred letters from the University of St. Michael's College, an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College, an honorary doctorate from the Augustana Theologische Hochschule, the John M. Manley Huntington award from Dartmouth, and the Jacobus Family Fellowship from Dartmouth, and she was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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- Born
- May 15, 1956
- Parents
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
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on July 23, 2013
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