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Susannah Heschel
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Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, where she is also chair of the Jewish Studies Program and a faculty member of the Religion Department. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant thought during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the history of biblical scholarship and the history of anti-Semitism. Her publications include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (1998) and The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (2010). She has received many honors, including the Mendelssohn Prize of the Leo Baeck Institute, and five honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and Germany. Currently, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and writing a book on the history of European Jewish scholarship on Islam. Excerpts from her writings and those of her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, are included in A Documentary History of Jewish-Christian Relations (2024).