Charles
Manekin

University of Maryland
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship

Research Topic

Aristotelian Logic and Jewish Thought in Thirteenth-Century Europe

Bio

Charles Manekin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. The focus of his research has been Aristotelian and humanist logic in Hebrew; the philosophy of Levi Gersonides; and the free will problem in Jewish philosophy. He authored On Maimonides (2004); and edited The Routledge Jewish Philosophy Reader (2000); and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2007). In the spring, Manekin will explore Aristotelian logic and Jewish thought in thirteenth-century Europe.

Fellowship

2006–2007

Encouraging a broad view of Islamic societies and fostering new approaches to their religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity.

2002–2003

Mining the extraordinarily rich history and culture of East European Jewry.

2012–2013

Devoting intense study to a complex century characterized by the entanglement of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim life.