Shubert Spero

Rabbi Shubert Spero (born September 23, 1923) is an American rabbi and author; he was Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University.

Biography

Spero was born in New York City. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S degree at City College of New York and attained an M.A and a PhD in philosophy at Western Reserve University. In 1947 he received smicha (ordination), and in 1950 became rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio.

In 1983 with his wife and family he made aliyah to Israel settling in Jerusalem. Spero served as the Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University. He was Rabbi Emeritus of his Cleveland community. He wrote extensively on the subjects of halakha, ethics, the Holocaust, Jewish philosophy and the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

Works

• God in All Seasons (1967)
• Morality, Halakha, and the Jewish tradition (1983)
• Holocaust and Return to Zion: a Study in The Jewish Philosophy of History (2000)
• Aspects of Rabbi Joseph Dov Soloveitchik's Philosophy of Judaism: An Analytic Approach (2009)
• New Perspectives in Theology of Judaism (August 2013)
• ”The Faith of a Jew.” 1949 Jewish Pocket Books.