The Harry Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Samuel J. Kessler is the incoming Harry Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.<\/p>\n
His work focuses on the interaction of religion and modernity in European history and literature, and he writes on topics in Jewish history, history of science, travel writing, postmodern theory, Holocaust and American literature. He is the author of The First Modern Rabbi: The Life and Times of the Nineteenth-Century Scholar and Preacher Adolf Jellinek<\/em> (Brown Judaic Studies, 2022) and co-editor of Modern Jewish Theology: The First One Hundred Years, 1835-1935<\/em> (JPS\/Nebraska, 2023). He is currently editing the travel diary of James George Frazer and writing a book on modern midrash.<\/p>\nHe comes to VCU after having previously taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN, and at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n
The Harry Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies was established with gifts by Harry Lyons, DDS (DDS 1923, School of Dentistry) former dean of the VCU School of Dentistry, and supports the study of Judaism and university-sponsored programs on Judaic culture, ethics, history and tradition.<\/h4>\n
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Virginia Commonwealth University\u2019s College of Humanities and Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Samuel J. Kessler, Ph.D., as the Harry Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies. \u201cThe study of religion is essential to understanding the complexities of our world. Dr. Kessler will offer profound insights into human history, culture, and values, fostering a deeper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectornews.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}