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Jonathan Schorsch

Assistant Professor of Religion
(Religion)

80 Claremont Avenue, Room 209
212-851-4128
js1167@columbia.edu

 
 
 
 

Jonathan Schorsch received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000. His research interests include early modern Sephardic culture and history; race and religion; anthropology of Jews and Judaism; and early modern Jewish-Christian relations. His publications include Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2004); "Disappearing Origins: Some Recent Postmodern Sephardic Autobiographies, a Collective Review," in the Hebrew-language journal Eretz Acheret (January–February 2006); "Jewish Ghosts in Germany," in Jewish Social Studies (Spring/Summer 2003); and Race and Religion in the Converso Atlantic: Swimming Against Seventeenth-Century Currents (Brill, forthcoming). His writing interests include socially responsible investing, the environment, Judaism and ecology, and contemporary Jewish music. He has published in venues such as Tikkun, Sh'ma, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, Eretz Acheret, and European Judaism.