Contributors

YAEL CHERNIAK teaches in the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University. Her research interests are Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Dialogic Philosophy of Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel. This article was written as part of her research study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

ARTHUR GREEN is an intellectual historian and a theologian. He works as a contemporary interpreter of the Jewish mystical tradition. He is Professor Emeritus at Brandeis University and has recently retired as dean and rector of the Hebrew College Rabbinical School, which he founded in 2004.

ZOHAR MAOR is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, Bar-Ilan University. His main fields of interest are Central European intellectual history, German-Jewish intellectuals, secularization, and interreligious study. His latest publication is “A Dialogic Theology of Migration: Martin Buber and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy,” in Religions, 15:1 (2024). He is currently working on a book on the theological concept of secularization in interwar Germany.

DAVID NOVAK is the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Professor Emeritus of Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies in the University of Toronto, and currently a Fellow of St. Michael’s College there. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is the author of twenty books and numerous articles.

CHAIM I. WAXMAN is Professor in the Behavioral Sciences Department at Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. He holds a Bachelor and Master of Hebrew Literature from Yeshiva University and an MA and PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. He has published widely and is the author and editor of more than fifteen books, including Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy (2017).