David Ellenson

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David Ellenson is a rabbi who is known as a leader of the Reform movement in Judaism. He is the president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), and the I.H. and Anna Grancell Professor of Jewish Religious Thought. He is also a fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute of Jerusalem, and a fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Ellenson is the author of Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy, Halakhah and the Boundaries of Modern Jewish History (1989), Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy (1990), and After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity (2004).

Contents 1 Education 2 Books 3 References

[edit] Education

Ellenson graduated from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in 1969. He was then ordained at HUC-JIR in 1977, and received his Ph.D from Columbia University in 1981. "Jewish religion is a big part of my life and everyone else's."

[edit] Books

• National Jewish Book Awards on the same year,*After Emancipation: Jewish Religious Responses to Modernity. HUC-Press, 2004.
• Between Tradition and Culture: The Dialectics of Jewish Religion and Identity in the Modern World. Scholar's Press, 1994.
• with Stanley Chyet. Bits of Honey: Essays for Samson H. Levey. Scholar's Press, 1993.
• Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer and the Creation of a Modern Jewish Orthodoxy. University of Alabama Press, 1990).
• Tradition in Transition: Orthodoxy. Halakhah and the Boundaries of Modem Jewish Identity. University Press of America. 1989.

[edit] References

• Dr. David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.