Joshua
Shanes

Joshua Shanes
University of California, Davis
Ruth Meltzer Fellow
Research Topic
Evangelicalization of Orthodoxy
Bio
Joshua Shanes is the Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. 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).