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David B. Ruderman
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem
 

David B. Ruderman is Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

He was educated at the City College of New York, the Teacher’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Columbia University. He received his rabbinical degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York and his Ph.D. in Jewish History from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Prior to taking his position at Pennsylvania, he held teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Maryland. At Maryland, he won the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.

Professor Ruderman is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews. His works include Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe and Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry’s Construction of Modern Jewish Thought, for which he received the Koret Book Award. His book, The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham B. Mordecai Farissol, was honored with the JWB National Book Award in Jewish History.

Professor Ruderman is president of the American Academy for Jewish Research and is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award for his work in Jewish history from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

 
Courses by this professor:

Between Cross and Crescent & Jewish Intellectual History (Set)  
By Professor David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
Let Professor David B. Ruderman help you better understand Jewish culture and society, from its foundations in late antiquity to the challenges it faced during the 20th century. Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza presents an overview of Jewish culture and society from late antiquity to the dawn of modernity. Next, explore how Benedict Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, and other Jewish intellectuals adapted their beliefs to the modern world in Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century.
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$200 		Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza  
By Professor David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
This course presents an overview of Jewish culture and society, from its rabbinic foundations in late antiquity up to the dawn of modernity in the 17th century.
Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century  
By Professor David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
God. Torah. Israel. These three concepts have been the focus of Jewish thought throughout history. The last four centuries have presented Jewish thinkers with increasingly difficult challenges. Through these lectures you will observe the time-honored intellectual tradition through which Judaism analyzes, rethinks, and reformulates itself.
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$380 		Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century & Beginnings of Judaism (Set)  
By Professor David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania
Explore the roots of Jewish history, ritual, and intellectual thought and get a comprehensive look at this ancient faith. In Jewish Intellectual History: 16th to 20th Century, explore Judaism's intellectual approach to change, challenge, and the modern world. Then, witness Judaism's growth from its biblical roots to the highly developed system of beliefs we know today in Beginnings of Judaism.