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Dr. Claire Sufrin

Courses

  • Great Jewish Thinkers
  • The Role of Israel in Jewish Life
  • Jewish Thought in the 20th Century
  • The New Jewish Canon

Education

  • PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Bio

Dr. Claire E. Sufrin is Director of Research and Publication at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, where she edits the award-winning Sources: A Journal of Jewish Ideas, oversees the Kogod Research Center seminars, and teaches in the Hartman Teen Fellowship and other programs. Claire earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University, where her research focused on the German-Jewish thinker Martin Buber, and a BA in Religious Studies from Yale University. She lives in Evanston, Ill with her husband Michael Simon and their two sons.

 

Publications

  • New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980-2015, co-edited with Yehuda Kurtzer (Academic Studies Press, National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, 2020)

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