Ismar Schorsch (born November 3, 1935, in Hanover, Germany) is the Chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish history.[1][2]
Schorsch served as the sixth Chancellor at JTS for approximately 20 years, from March 1986 until his retirement in June 2006.[3] He was succeeded by Arnold Eisen.
^Andreas W. Daum, Hartmut Lehmann, James J. Sheehan (eds.), The Second Generation: Émigrés from Nazi Germany as Historians. With a Biobibliographic Guide. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78238-985-9, pp. 11, 35‒36, 433‒434 (including a short biography and bibliography).
IsmarSchorsch (born November 3, 1935, in Hanover, Germany) is the Chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) and the Rabbi Herman Abramovitz...
Emil Schorsch was married to Fanny Rothschild (1901–1983), a daughter of Theodore Rothschild. Their children were Hanna Schorsch and IsmarSchorsch, who...
to convert to Christianity. Oppenheim is considered by the scholar IsmarSchorsch to be in sympathy with the ideals of the Wissenschaft des Judentums...
non-theological academic training programs. Cohen appointed historian IsmarSchorsch as the first dean of the Graduate School. Beginning in the 1970s, the...
by a harsh responsum written by Roth. The retirement of Chancellor IsmarSchorsch, a staunch opponent, allowed the CJLS to endorse a motion which still...
volume of Graetz's essays translated into English, rabbi and historian IsmarSchorsch wrote of History of the Jews: "[It] still remains, a century later,...
viewed through the lens of modernity. Jewish scholar and philosopher IsmarSchorsch has postulated that Conservative Judaism is tied to "sensing divinity...
figure shared the Orthodox sentiment about not adopting Yom HaShoah. IsmarSchorsch, former Chancellor of Conservative Judaism's Jewish Theological Seminary...
organization, Rabbi IsmarSchorsch said that the Conservative movement had "lost faith in itself" and "become Reform". In an interview, Rabbi Schorsch, who was about...
(Class of 2003): professor of journalism at Saint Joseph's University IsmarSchorsch (Class of 1957): Chancellor emeritus of The Jewish Theological Seminary...
dissertation at JTS under the direction of former Chancellor of JTS IsmarSchorsch. She has served in many leadership positions at JTS including dean of...
readmission of the Jews by England were primarily political or religious. IsmarSchorsch, for example, has argued that the idea of England being a final place...
of the Agudath Israel of America pushed back on assertions made by IsmarSchorsch that the State's elevation of Rabbinic Judaism as the sole arbiter over...
responses by rabbis David Fine, Susskind Goldberg, Kassel Abelson, and IsmarSchorsch), Conservative Judaism Vol. 56(3), pp. 21–50. The CJLS allowed some...
2018. Retrieved January 12, 2021. Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yinglish IsmarSchorsch, Shabbat Shekalim Va-Yakhel 5755 Archived October 26, 2005, at the Wayback...
Conservative and Reform movements as legitimate, and in February 1997, Rabbi IsmarSchorsch, the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, claimed that Orthodox...
The earliest publications by Aviv Press were: a Torah commentary by IsmarSchorsch meditations on the Jewish year by Jonathan Wittenberg meditations on...
the chief executive position of an American rabbinical association IsmarSchorsch, Conservative educator and leader Harold M. Schulweis, rabbi of Valley...
of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to replace Chancellor IsmarSchorsch upon his retirement. Arnold Eisen was ultimately chosen for the position...
mainstream examples of Conservative Jewish thought are as follows: Professor IsmarSchorsch, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, writes...
Rethinking Fundamentals. London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Schorsch, Ismar From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism (1994)...
transgressors. He lacked any jurisdiction in civil affairs from the start. IsmarSchorsch noted that twenty years after the retirement of his predecessor Raphael...
September 23, 2009. "What Is a Jew?; No. 1; A Conversation Between Rabbi IsmarSchorsch and Larry Josephson". American Archive of Public Broadcasting. 1999...
the seventh chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary, replacing IsmarSchorsch. Eisen is the second non-rabbi, after Cyrus Adler, to hold this post...
Holocaust Issues 2014 – Joachim Gauck, President of Germany 2015 – IsmarSchorsch, German-born American President Emeritus of the Leo Baeck Institut 2016...
definitions of Orthodox conversion. Later, Vinik asks noted theologian Rabbi IsmarSchorsch about the reasoning for such "inflexible" spiritual stances. "The sad...
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