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Menachem Kellner Menachem Kellner Higher Education 1973 Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis 1969 M.A., Washington University, St. Louis 1966 B.A., Washington University, St. Louis 1969-1970 Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1966-1967 New York University, New York 1964-1965 Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1962-1963 Yeshivat Merkaz Harav, Jerusalem Career 2005 Scholar in Residence, Foundation for Jewish Studies (Washington, DC) 1995- Present Full Professor, University of Haifa 1992 Scholar in Residence, Foundation for Jewish Studies (Washington, DC) 1992-1993 Visiting Professor, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne (Paris) 1992 Visiting Professor, Northwestern University 1990-2005 Wolfson Chair of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa 1987-1995 Associate Professor, University of Haifa 1980-1987 Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa (Tenure: 1983) 1978-1979 Visiting Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa 1975-1980 Assistant Professor, University of Virginia 1973-1975 Lecturer, College of William and Mary 1972-1973 Acting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia University of Haifa – Administration and Selected Public Activities 2006- Present Honorary Doctorate Committee, Appointments Committee 2003-2006 Faculty of Humanities 1999-2003 Editor, University of Haifa Press, English Division 1998- Present Director, Project 'Be-Zavta' 1997-2002 University Ethics Committee 1995-2003 Board of Directors, Haifa University Press 1995-1998 Committee on Campus Physical Development 1995-1998 University Board of Governors 1994-1997 Committee on Physical Education 1994-1997 Chair, Dormitory Committee 1994-1997 Chair, Scholarships Committee 1994-1997 Dean of Students 1994-1997 University Senate, Standing Executive Committee 1994-1996 Chair, Tuition Exceptions Committee 1993-1996 Chair, University Library Committee 1993-1994 Head of Talmud Preparatory Program (Mechinah) 1990-1991 University Board of Governors 1989-1994 School of Social Work, Permanent Governing Council 1989-1992, 1994 University Senate 1989-1992 University Senate, Standing Executive Committee 1989-1991 Faculty Union Governing Board 1989-1991 Chair, Committee on Faculty Remuneration 1989-1991 Graduate School Governing Council 1988-1991 Department of Maritime Civilizations 1985-1986 Chair, Coordinating Committee on Students from Ethiopia 1983-1987 Assistant University Disciplinarian 1983-1985 Chair, Steering Committee for Overseas Students Program Outside the University of Haifa 2009- Present Senior Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion, Shalem Center 2007-2009 Appointments Committee, Sha'anan College 2006-2008 Executive Committee, International Advisery Board for Academic Freedom (IAB), Bar-Ilan University 2005 Academic Governing Council, Standing Executive Committee, Safed College 2005-2009 Chair, Academic Governing Council, Sha'anan College 2003 Academic Governing Council, Safed College 2002-2009 Academic Governing Council, Gordon College of Education Awards and Fellowships 1999 National Jewish Book Award Short List for Must a Jew Believe Anything? 1993 Kaniel Award for Judaic Scholarship, Haifa Municipality 1971-1972 Wilson Foundation Teaching Internship (declined) 1968-1971 NDEA Title IV Fellow 1966-1967 Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1966 B.A. (Magna cum laude), Washington University Grants 1990-1991 Memorial Foundation 1990 Littauer Foundation 1990 American Academy for Jewish Research 1987-1988 Memorial Foundation 1985 American Academy for Jewish Research 1981 Ministry of Immigrant Absorption 1976, 1977, 1979 University of Virginia 1969 Memorial Foundation 1969 Hebrew University Doctoral Supervision 2011 Asaf Turgeman, "Myth, History, and Mythhistory: Anti-Jewish Hatred in Israeli Political Discourse," Ph.D. 2010 Neta Ecker-Rozinger, "Universalistic Elements in the Thought of R. Eliezer Ashkenazi," Ph.D. 2008 Shlomo Yishai, "The Jewish Believer's Emotions: Emotions and Their Role in Worshipping God – Central Medieval Philosophical Perceptions," Ph.D. 2006 Seth Avi Kadish, "The Book of Abraham: R. Shimon ben Zemah Duran and the School of Rabbenu Nissim Gerondi," Ph.D. 2005 Gedaliah Oren, "R. Menachem Meiri on 'Others'," Ph.D. 2003 Erez Peleg, "Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov's Critique of Philosophy," Ph.D. 2002 Miriam Sivan, "The Seeker and the Sought: Cynthia Ozick's Fiction in Motion," Ph.D. 1997 Amy Rosenbaum, "Uncommon Ground: Using Martin Buber's Philosophy to Set the Parameters of Jewish-Christian Dialogue," Ph.D. (Northwestern University). Fourteen M.A. theses completed; five doctoral dissertations in progress. List of Publications – Refereed Books 1. Torah in the Observatory: Maimonides, Gersonides, Song of Songs (Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2010). 2. Science in the Bet Midrash: Studies in Maimonides (Brighton: Academic Studies Press, 2009). 3. Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006). Revised paperback edition published in 2010. 4. Maimonid O Judaizmu I Jevrejskom Narodu (Belgrade: Pismo, 2000). 5. Must a Jew Believe Anything? (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1999). Second edition, revised and expanded, published in 2006. 6. Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority (Albany: SUNY Press, 1996). 7. Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991). 8. Maimonides on Human Perfection, Brown Judaic Studies Series (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990). 9. Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Paperback edition printed in 2004. Edited Books 1. Gersonides, Commentary on Song of Songs (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University, 2001). 2. Menachem Kellner, and Charles Manekin, eds., Human Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives (College Park: University of Maryland Press, 1997). 3. The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990). 4. Isaac Abravanel, Rosh Amanah (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1993). [Hebrew] 5. Contemporary Jewish Ethics (New York: Sanhedrin Press, 1978). Second printing in 1985. Articles 1. "'The Voice is the Voice of Jacob, but the Hands are the Hands of Esau': Isaac Abravanel between Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides," Jewish History (forthcoming). 2. "From Moses to Moses," Rambam Maimonides [Open Access] Medical Journal 1 (2010), pp. 1-5. 3. "R' Joseph Kafih on the Question: 'Who is a Jew?'," Sha'anan 16 (2010), pp. 171-177. [Hebrew] 4. "Maimonides' 'True Religion' – for Jews, or All Humanity?" Me'orot [Edah Journal] 7 (1) (2008). 5. "A New and Unexpected Textual Witness to the Reading 'He Who Kills a Single Person – It Is as if He Destroyed an Entire World," Tarbiz 75 (2007), pp. 565-566. [Hebrew] 6. "Did the Torah Precede the Cosmos? – A Maimonidean Study," Da'at 61 (2007), pp. 83-96. [Hebrew] 7.a. "'Farteitsht un Farbessert': Comments on Tendentious 'Corrections' to Maimonidean Texts," Be-Darkei Shalom: Iyyunim be-Hagut Yehudit Mugashim li-Shalom Rosenberg, B. Ish-Shalom, ed. (Jerusalem: Bet Morashah, 2006), pp. 255-263. [Hebrew] 7.b. English translation published in Me'orot [Edah Journal] 6 (2) (2007), pp. 1-13. 8. "Worship of the Heart vs. Worship in the Temple," Sha'anan 10 (2005), pp. 131-139. [Hebrew] 9. "'Mishneh Torah' – Why?" Mesorah le-Yosef 4 (2005), pp. 316-329. [Hebrew] 10. "The Moral Significance of the Laws of Ritual Purity and Impurity," Sha'anan 9 (2004), pp. 213-221. [Hebrew] 11. "A Selected Bibliography of Studies on Maimonides, 1991-," Jewish History 18 (2004), pp. 243-289. 12. "Rabbis in Politics: A Study in Medieval and Modern Jewish Political Theory," State and Society 3 (2003), pp. 673-698. [Hebrew] 13. "Maimonides on the Nature of Ritual Purity and Impurity," Da'at 50-52 (2003), pp. 1-30. 14. "Bibliographia Gersonideana 1992-2002," Aleph 3 (2003), pp. 343-374. 15. "Is Maimonides' Ideal Person Austerely Rationalist?" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (2002), pp. 125-143. 16. "Was Maimonides Truly Universalist?" Trumah: Beitraege zur juedischen Philosophie 11 (Festgabe zum 80. Geburtstag von Ze'ev Levy) (2001), pp. 3-15. 17.a. "Strauss' Maimonides vs. Maimonides' Maimonides," Le'ela (Dec, 2000), pp. 29-36. 17.b. Hebrew translation published in Iyyun 50 (2001), pp. 397-406. 18. "Can Orthodoxy Share the Public Square?" Jewish Political Studies Review 11 (1999), pp. 127-143. 19. "Could Maimonides Get into Rambam's Heaven?" Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 8 (1999), pp. 231-242. 20. "Maimonides' Allegiances to Torah and Science," Torah U‟mada 7 (1997), pp. 88-104. 21. "Well, Can There Be Jewish Ethics or Not?" Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 5 (1996), pp. 237-241. 22. "On Universalism and Particularism in Judaism," Da'at 36 (1996), pp. v-xv. 23. "Gersonides on Imitatio Dei and the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge," Jewish Quarterly Review 85 (1995), pp. 275-296. 24. "Isaac Abravanel on Dogma and Faith," Da'at 32-33 (1994), pp. xlvii-lix. 25. "Politics and Perfection: Gersonides vs. Maimonides," Jewish Political Studies Review 6 (1994), pp. 49-82. 26. "Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the Nature of Science," Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 4 (1994), pp. 1-21. 27. "Gersonides on the Role of the Active Intellect in Human Cognition," Hebrew Union College Annual 65 (1994), pp. 233-259. 28. "Maimonides on the Science of the Mishneh Torah," AJS Review 18 (1993), pp. 169-194. 29. "Reading Rambam: Approaches to the Interpretation of Maimonides," Jewish History 5 (1991), pp. 73-93. 30. "Maimonides' Conception of the Ultimate Meaning of Life," Journal of Ultimate Reality
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