Judith Bleich

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Judith Bleich
Born
Judith Ochs

1938 (age 87–88)
Alma materNew York University
Stern College
Spouse
(m. 1961)
Scientific career
FieldsJudaic studies
InstitutionsTouro College

Judith Bleich (born 1938) is a professor of Judaic studies at Touro College in Manhattan.[1] She specializes in the nineteenth-century development of Reform and neo-Orthodoxy in the wake of the enlightenment and emancipation, and has written extensively on modern Jewish history.[1] She is also a member of the steering committee for the Orthodox Forum organized by Yeshiva University.[2]

Biography

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She was born Judith Ochs.[3] In June 1961 she married Rabbi J. David Bleich.[3] They have three children together.

Academic credentials

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Bleich earned her bachelor's degree and Bachelor of Religious Education from Stern College. She earned her master's degree from Yeshiva University.[4] She earned her doctorate from New York University in 1974 with her dissertation Jacob Ettlinger, His Life and Works: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy in Germany.[5]

Selected bibliography

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A full list of Bleich's articles appears here[permanent dead link].

Articles

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  • "A symposium on divided and distinguished worlds". Tradition 26,2 (1992) 4-62[6]
  • "Between East and West: modernity and traditionalism in the writings of Rabbi Yehi’el Ya’akov Weinberg". Engaging Modernity (1997) 169-273
  • "The Emergence of an Orthodox Press in Nineteenth-Century Germany". Jewish Social Studies 42 3/4 (1980), 323-344[7]
  • "Liturgical innovation and spirituality: Trends and trendiness". Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law (2005) 315-405[6]
  • "Rabbi Akiva Eger and the Nascent Reform Movement", in Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies 9.B3 (1986)[8]
  • "Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Ish al Ha’edah". Jewish Action 56.4: 28
  • "Rabbinic responses to nonobservance in the modern era". Jewish Tradition and the Non-Traditional Jew (1992) 37-115[6]
  • "The Testament of a Halakhist". Tradition 20.3 (1982)

Book chapters

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  • "The Circumcision Controversy in Classical Reform in Historical Context" in Turim: Studies in Jewish history and literature presented to Dr. Bernard Lander (Volume 1) (2007).[9]
  • "Greater Resources, Greater Accountability" in The Ethical Imperative: Torah perspectives on ethics and values (2000)[10]
  • "Military service: Ambivalence and contradiction" in War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition (2007), 415-476[11]

References

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