Judith Bleich (born 1938) is a professor of Judaic studies at Touro College in Manhattan.[1] She specializes in the nineteenth-century development of Reform and neo-Orthodoxy in the wake of the enlightenment and emancipation, and has written extensively on modern Jewish history.[1] She is also a member of the steering committee for the Orthodox Forum organized by Yeshiva University.[2]
Biography
She was born Judith Ochs.[3] In June 1961 she married Rabbi J. David Bleich.[3] They have three children together.
Academic credentials
Bleich earned her bachelor's degree and Bachelor of Religious Education from Stern College. She earned her master's degree from Yeshiva University.[4] She earned her doctorate from New York University in 1974 with her dissertation Jacob Ettlinger, His Life and Works: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy in Germany.[5]
Selected bibliography
A full list of Bleich's articles appears here[permanent dead link].
Articles
- "A symposium on divided and distinguished worlds". Tradition 26,2 (1992) 4-62[6]
- "Between East and West: modernity and traditionalism in the writings of Rabbi Yehi’el Ya’akov Weinberg". Engaging Modernity (1997) 169-273
- "The Emergence of an Orthodox Press in Nineteenth-Century Germany". Jewish Social Studies 42 3/4 (1980), 323-344[7]
- "Liturgical innovation and spirituality: Trends and trendiness". Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law (2005) 315-405[6]
- "Rabbi Akiva Eger and the Nascent Reform Movement", in Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies 9.B3 (1986)[8]
- "Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Ish al Ha’edah". Jewish Action 56.4: 28
- "Rabbinic responses to nonobservance in the modern era". Jewish Tradition and the Non-Traditional Jew (1992) 37-115[6]
- "The Testament of a Halakhist". Tradition 20.3 (1982)
