Gershon Greenberg
American University, Washington, D.C., Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Gershon Greenberg is Visiting Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches graduate seminars and undergraduate classes on Musar, Hasidism, and Messianism during the catastrophe; and Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University, Washington, D.C. He received his doctorate from the Joint Program in Religious Philosophy at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1969. His primary field of research is Jewish religious thought through the Holocaust. Works include Mishpatekha tehom Rabbah: Teguvot hagutiot ortodoksiot lashoah, with Asaf Yedidyah (Jerusalem 2016) and Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses to the Holocaust, with Steven T. Katz (Oxford 2007). He has served as a Fellow at Yad Vashem’s Institute for Advanced Holocaust Scholarship; Hebrew University’s Institute for Advanced Study; and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.