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Michael Zank is a German-born American author, specializing in Jewish theology and philosophy.
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Michael Zank is a German-born American author, specializing in Jewish theology and philosophy.
He studied Christian and Jewish theology in Germany before moving to the United States, after spending some time in Israel. He received his PhD in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. From 2013 to 2022 he served as the director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. He teaches introductory level courses on the Bible and Jerusalem, as well as advanced courses in the philosophy of religion. He is considered to be a leading expert in German Jewish intellectual history. [1] He works on Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and Leo Strauss. [2] He studied at Hebrew University in the 1980s and is interested in the combination of spirituality and violence the city has displayed. He currently maintains a few Jerusalem-related websites including "Jerusalem in Time, Space, and the Imagination" [3] among others. [4]
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