Shaul Magid

Shaul Magid is a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion at Harvard, and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He has rabbinical ordination from Jerusalem in 1984. Among other books, he is the author of From Metaphysics to Midrash ; American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society ; and Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern...See more

Shaul Magid is a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religion at Harvard, and Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He has rabbinical ordination from Jerusalem in 1984. Among other books, he is the author of From Metaphysics to Midrash ; American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society ; and Hasidism Incarnate: Hasidism, Christianity, and the Construction of Modern Judaism . He is the editor of the column Teiku for the Ayin Journal and writes regularly for +972 and Religion Dispatches . He is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the American Society for the Study of Religion. See less