Moosnick Lectureship in Judaic Studies Presents: Dr. Claire E. Sufrin
Dr. Claire E. Sufrin is director of research and publication at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she edits Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, oversees research seminars at the Kogod Research Center, and teaches teens, college students and adults.
Her written work appears in publications on Martin Buber’s biblical hermeneutics and philosophy of history, post-Holocaust theology, religion and literature, American Judaism and Jewish feminism. She is co-editor of The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates, 1980–2015, a 2021 National Jewish Book Award finalist.
Prior to her work at Hartman, she served as associate professor of instruction in Jewish studies and assistant director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University.
She has also taught at Stanford, University of Illinois–Chicago, the University of Notre Dame and Northeastern.
Sufrin holds a B.A. in religious studies from Yale University and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University. She lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and their two children.
Transylvania’s Moosnick Lectureship in Judaic Studies is a partnership with Lexington Theological Seminary, Ohavay Zion Synagogue and Temple Adath Israel.
Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 5:30 p.m.
“History and Memory of the Second Temple in Contemporary Jewish Literature”
Strickland Auditorium, Transylvania University
Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m.
“Things Can Be Better Than They Are Right Now: Hope as Jewish Orientation”
Temple Adath Israel, Lexington, KY
Sponsors
Transylvania University
Lexington Theological Seminary
Ohavay Zion Synagogue
Temple Adath Israel