Joshua
Shanes
Joshua Shanes
College of Charleston
Ruth Meltzer Fellow
Research Topic
Evangelicalization of Orthodoxy
Bio
Joshua Shanes is professor of Jewish studies, and director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies, at the College of Charleston. He has published widely on modern Jewish history, religion, politics, and antisemitism in both academic and popular outlets. He recently completed a book that traces the history of Jewish Orthodoxy from its German origins to the modern day (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming) and is currently editing an Orthodoxy reader with Naomi Seidman for the Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought.
Shanes received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Selected publications
- Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- On the Margins of Orthodoxy, edited with G. Dynner, J. Lang, and Z. Newfield (Academic Studies Press, forthcoming).
