Dr.Allan Nadler - Religious Studies Department

Nadler

Allan Nadler
Professor of Jewish Studies; Director, Jewish Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University

Biography
(B.A., McGill, M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard), Professor of Jewish Studies, has been on the Drew faculty since 1998. Prior to his appointment at Drew, Dr. Nadler was, for seven years, the Director of Research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, and Dean of YIVO's Graduate Training Program, the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. From 1991-94 Dr. Nadler was Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In 1994-95 her served as Adjunct Professor at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. In 1998 he was the Ezra Sensibar Visiting Professor at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies in Chicago. In 2005 Dr. Nadler was Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where he had previously been a faculty member from 1982-1990.

An ordained rabbi, Dr. Nadler served the Charles River Park Synagogue in Boston and Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount (Montreal), Canada's largest traditional Jewish congregation.

Dr. Nadler's articles, reviews and essays have appeared in numerous scholarly and popular journals and newspapers such as Commentary, The New Republic, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Judaism, Tradition, Modern Judaism, The New York Times, Newsday, Forward, The Jewish Week, and The Baltimore Jewish Times.

Dr. Nadler is the author of: Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), The Hasidim in America (American Jewish Committee Monograph, 1995), and the forthcoming: The Heretic as Hero: Spinoza in the Modern Jewish Imagination.

Contact
302 Faulkner House
Telephone: (973)408-3222
Fax: (973)408-3941
E-mail:anadler@drew.edu


Faculty - Allan Nadler
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	Allan Nadler Professor of Jewish Studies; Director, Jewish Studies Ph.D., Harvard University Biography (B.A., McGill, M.A. and Ph.D. Harvard), Professor of Jewish Studies, has been on the Drew faculty since 1998. Prior to his appointment at Drew, Dr. Nadler was, for seven years, the Director of Research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, and Dean of YIVO's Graduate Training Program, the Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies. From 1991-94 Dr. Nadler was Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In 1994-95 her served as Adjunct Professor at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. In 1998 he was the Ezra Sensibar Visiting Professor at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies in Chicago. In 2005 Dr. Nadler was Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University in Montreal, where he had previously been a faculty member from 1982-1990. An ordained rabbi, Dr. Nadler served the Charles River Park Synagogue in Boston and Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount (Montreal), Canada's largest traditional Jewish congregation. Dr. Nadler's articles, reviews and essays have appeared in numerous scholarly and popular journals and newspapers such as Commentary, The New Republic, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Judaism, Tradition, Modern Judaism, The New York Times, Newsday, Forward, The Jewish Week, and The Baltimore Jewish Times. Dr. Nadler is the author of: Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), The Hasidim in America (American Jewish Committee Monograph, 1995), and the forthcoming: The Heretic as Hero: Spinoza in the Modern Jewish Imagination. Contact 302 Faulkner House Telephone: (973)408-3222 Fax: (973)408-3941 E-mail:anadler@drew.edu	Links to Selected Publications
		The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Selected Reviews of The Faith of the Mithnagdim Jay Harris in Commentary Yehudah Mirsky in The New Republic Alan Bril in AJS Review, 1999 ----------------- The Hasidim in America (American Jewish Committee: 1995) and the forthcoming: The Heretic as Hero: Spinoza in the Modern Jewish Imagination Links to Selected Articles, Monographs & Reviews Piety and Politics: The Satmar Rebbe (Judaism: Spring 1982) Rabbis Rebbes Rationalism & Romanticism (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Monograph, 1992) Meir ben Elijah's Milhamot Ado-nai: A Late anti-Hasidic Polemic (Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, vol. 1:1992) Last Exit to Brooklyn: On Lubavitch Messianism (The New Republic: May, 1992 ) Jewish Religious Movements in 18th & 19th Century Eastern Europe in The Modern Jewish Experience (NYU Press, 1993) Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man: Not a Mitnagged (Modern Judaism, Vol.13: 1993) The War on Modernity of the Munkaczer Rebbe (Modern Judaism, vol. 14: 1994) "King of Kings County": The Lubavitcher Rebbe Dies...And Lives ! The New Republic: July 1994) Shaul Stampfer's "The Lithuanian Yeshivot" (Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 48: no. 2, Autumn 1997) "The Scholarly Life of the Gaon of Vilna": in Judaism in Practise: Princeton Readings in Relgion, ed. Lawrence Fine. Princeton University Press, 2001 Moshe Idel's "Messianic Mystics" (Review of Rabbinic Judaism, Vol 4: no. 1, 2001) On Immanuel Melzer's "No Way Out" (Journal of Jewish Social Studies) On Jonathan Sarna's "American Judaism" (The New Leader) On David Assaf's The Regal Way (Slavic Review) "Piety and Power" and "Hasidic People" (Commentary) On Yeshayahu Leibowitz (Commentary) The Practice of Judaism in Eastern Europe The Encyclopedia of Judaism, Brill: Leiden, 2005 Immanuel Etkes' "The Besht" (AJS Review, vol. 22; April, 2003) Immanuel Etkes's "Gaon of Vilna" (American Historical Review, Vol. 108, no. 5. December, 2003) Holy Kugel: The Sanctification of Ashkenzaic Ethnic Food in Hasidism (in "Food & Judaism" ed. by Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University Press, 2005) The Rambam Revival(in "Moses Maimonides: Communal Impact, Historic Legacy" ed. Benny Kraut, Queens College Press, 2005) Maimonides' Radical Rationalism (Forward, 2006) Romancing Spinoza (Commentary, December 2006) Izbica-Radzyn Hasidism: On 'Hasidism on the Margins' (Jewish Quarterly Review, 96:2: Spring, 2006 The Value of Torah Study in Slonimer Hasidism (in "Yeshivot U-vatei Midrashot", ed. Immanuel Etekes; Jerusalem: Merkaz Shazar, 2006 (Hebrew) "Hasidic Judaism" (in Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, 2007) Review-essay of Katz, "Lithuanian Jewish Culture" Gal Ed, Fall, 2007 "The Besht as Spinozist: Abraham Krochmal's Satirical Introduction to Ha-Ketav veha-Mikhtav" in *Rabbinic Culture & its Critics* (Wayne State University Press, 2008) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected Reviews and Essays from The Forward & other Magazines/Newspapers Rabbi Isadore Twersky: Remembering my Teacher Rabbi David Weiss HaLivni's Perfect Faith in Imperfect Texts Dilemmas of a Fallible Rabbi: On Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews Hirsh Abramowicz's Profiles of a Lost World In Praise of Hayyim Nahman Bialik Enlightened anti-Semitism from Voltaire to Edward Said Who Owns Leo Strauss ? Springtime for Spinoza: The Heretic on the Yiddish Stage Purim and Jewish Violence: Review of Horowitz, 'Reckless Rites' That Other Preacher from Galilee The Fraud of "Jewish Renewal" The Scandal of Haredi Racism A New Take on Old Ethics: The Revival of Mussar On Ruth Wisse's Modern Jewish Canon On "Born to Kvetch" On The Diaries of Yankev Zipper "Law & Order: Special Galitsianer Unit" Review of MichaelStanislawski's "A Murder in Lemberg" The Death of Dissent Spinoza: Founder of the ACLU ? "Springtime for Spinoza": Heretic on the Yiddish Stage A Catholic Writer's anti Papal Polemic: On Gary Will's "Papal Sin" The Darker Side of Hasidism: On David Assaf's Neehaz Basvakh Montreal's Rabbis & their Chickens: On Robinson's Rabbis and their Community Righteous Indignation: Understanding the Spinka Hasidic Scandal Baruch on Broadway: David Ives' "New Jerusalem: The Interrogaton of Baruch Spinoza A Sad, Searching Soul: On Ben Zion Gold's Memoirs of Jewish Life in Pre-war Poland Haredi Life, Too Purely Rendered: On David Volach's "My Father My Lord" (Hofshat Kayitz) Absence & Presence: On Rabbi David Halivni's "Breaking the Tablets" ------------------------------ "From Zion, Not From Brooklyn" op. ed. New York Times April 1994 L'Affaire Schwartz: The New Republic 'Montreal Diarist' Hi-Jacking Religion: Montreal Gazette op. ed. 2005 Black Hat Like Me: In Praise of Outremont's Hasidism in Montreal Gazette, Auguest 2007