Talya Fishman

Associate Professor

Religious Studies

215.898.5837

tfishman@sas.upenn.edu

Education:

Harvard University, Ph.D.  1986
Jewish Theological Seminary of America M.A. 1979
Wesleyan University B.A. 1976

Languages:

Hebrew

Research Interests:

Early Modern Jewish Philosophy and Theology; Gender and Religion

Overseas Research Experience:

Israel

Representative Awards and Distinctions:

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2004); Center for Advanced Jewish Studies Fellowship (2003-04); ACLS Fellowship for Independent Scholars (2000-01)

Recent Publications:

"Rhineland Pietists' Sacralization of Oral Torah." Jewish Quarterly Review forthcoming (2006); "Rhineland Pietist Approaches to Prayer and the Textualization of Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Northern Europe." Jewish Quarterly Review 11 (2004)

Courses:

RELS 002: Religions of the West
RELS 123: Introduction to Judaism
RELS 320/520: Spirit and Law
RELS 419: Jewish-Christian Relations Through the Ages
RELS 426: Rabbinic Writers on Rabbinic Culture
RELS 523: Studies in Medieval Jewish Culture