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We are thrilled to announce that Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, recently published his first book, Moses Mendelssohn's Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2016). Moses Mendelssohn (1729鈥�1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an article in the Journal of Religious Ethics . Entitled 鈥淟aw, Ethics, and the Needs of History: Mendelssohn, Krochmal, and Moral Philosophy,鈥� the essay revisits two foundational modern Jewish...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an essay in the Jewish Review of Books. Entitled 鈥� Saving the World ,鈥� the essay explores recent scholarship on the German-Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig and his near-conversion to...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published two articles on Moses Mendelssohn, a leading Enlightenment philosopher generally seen as the founder of modern Jewish theology. The first article 鈥� "Anarchy and Law: Mendelssohn on Philosophy and...

Elias Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently spoke at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta and at a conference on 鈥� This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently presented on panels at the University of Denver and the Illif School of Theology on 鈥淩eligion and the Academy鈥� and 鈥淭he Multidisciplinary of Religious Studies.鈥� During the coming months, Professor...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently published an essay on strategies for attracting students to humanities courses. Entitled 鈥淓xpanding the Jewish Studies Classroom: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and the Trinity,鈥� the essay appears on the website of the...

Elias Sacks , Assistant Professor in Religious Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in Jewish Studies, recently spoke at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and Association for Jewish Studies. His papers -- entitled "Ritual Theory and Jewish Enlightenment: Mendelssohn and Contemporary Debates" and...