As part of the Thering Fellowship, Eisen will hold conversations with small groups of faculty, students, and members of the greater Madison community as well as deliver the public lecture
"Toward a Jewish Theology of Religious Pluralism"
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 7:30pm
1100 Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Chancellor Eisen, one of the world's foremost experts on American Judaism, is the seventh chancellor of the JTS. Prior to his work with JTS, Eisen was the Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and Religion at Stanford University.
He also served as senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University.
Eisen authored an essay in a volume of Theology and the Soul of the Liberal State, which was co-edited by LISAR Director Professor Charles Cohen. His other publications include a personal essay, Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America (1997); a historical work entitled Rethinking Modern Judaism: Ritual, Commandment, Community (1998); and The Jew Within: Self, Family and Community in America (2000), co-authored with sociologist Steven M. Cohen.
Sister Rose Thering, a Dominican nun, spent her life combatting anti-Semitism and fostering better Jewish-Catholic relations. The gift of Victor and Susan Temkin, the Thering Fellowship is designed to bring a leading figure in conversations among Jews, Christians, and Muslims to UW-Madison as a scholar-in-residence to both deliver a public lecture and to meet with small groups of students and other members of the greater Madison community.