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| Jonathan Schorsch
Room 209
80 Claremont
Mon,Thurs 10:00-12:00pm Thurs 4:10-5:00pm
Phone
university: 212-851-4128
Email
js1167@columbia.edu |
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Jonathan Schorsch
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Assistant Professor
Columbia University |
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Biography
BA, Columbia, 1986; MA, Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, 1996; PhD, History, University of California-Berkeley, 2000
My interests are varied and on occasion even intersect. My first book,
Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World
(Cambridge University Press, 2004), presents a cultural history of
early modern Black-Jewish relations. The book was honored with the Salo
Wittmayer Baron Book Prize from the American Academy for Jewish
Research. My forthcoming book, tentatively titled
The Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth-Century Iberian World
(Brill, 2008), delves further into the
nexus of religion and "race" in the formation of early modern identity
and intergroup relations.
In between these books I published “Jewish Ghosts in Germany,”
Jewish Social Studies
9,3 (Spring/Summer 2003), Disappearing Origins: Sephardic Autobiography Today,
Prooftexts
27,1 (2007) and Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva:
An Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish Merchant Abroad in the Seventeenthth
Century, Proceedings, Conference on Dutch Jewry, Jerusalem, November
2004, ed. Yosef Kaplan (forthcoming, 2007). My more general-interest
writing includes pieces on politics, socially responsible investing,
environmental issues, Judaism and ecology, and contemporary Jewish
music and culture. Pieces have appeared in publications such as
Eretz Acheret,
European Judaism,
Sh’ma,
Tikkun,
The Jerusalem Post
and
Zeek.
In an earlier life I had time and energy
to be an avid capoeirista. I live in Riverdale, the Bronx, a block from
where I grew up, with my wife, Gail, and our five children, who keep me
honest (or try).
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