Adam Ferziger

Adam S. Ferziger (born November 10, 1964, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn) is a Jewish historian and author. He is known for his study of Jewish assimilation in the Diaspora, and for documenting the evolving relationship between Orthodox and non-observant Jews.

He received his early education at the SAR Academy in Riverdale, and the Ramaz School in Manhattan before earning his BA and MA at Yeshiva University. He studied at the Beit Midrash L'Torah, popularly known as BMT, in Jerusalem and Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut.

He earned his doctorate from Israel's Bar-Ilan University, where he is a lecturer and associate director of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry. He serves as the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Fellow in Jewish Studies and is a senior research fellow at Bar Ilan's Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research [1]. Previously, he was the founding director of the university's preparatory program for new immigrants to Israel and served as a community rabbi for 10 years at the Beit Binyamin Synagogue in Kfar Sava, Israel.

A frequent lecturer in the U.S. and Europe, Ferziger was a visiting professor at Shandong University in Jinan, China in 2005. He and his wife Naomi live with their six children in Kfar Sava.

Works

Ferziger is the author of Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity, and co-editor of New Perspectives on the Study of Orthodoxy, with Aviezer Ravitzky and Yosef Salmon.

References

1. Bar Ilan University Bar-Ilan University

2. Jewish Assimilation Jewish assimilation

3. Orthodox Judaism Orthodox Judaism

4. Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity [2]

5. New Perspectives on the Study of Orthodoxy [3]

6. Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research and Strengthening Jewish Vitality [4]

7. Training American Orthodox Rabbis to Play a Role in Confronting Assimilation: Programs, Methodologies and Directions [5]

8. Shandong University Shandong University