פרופ' פרזיגר אדם

https://biu.academia.edu/AdamFerziger

I. Academic Education

            2001    Ph. D. [Summa Cum Laude], Modern Jewish History, Bar Ilan University

                        Dissertation Advisor: Professor Gershon C. Bacon

            1990    M.A., Modern Jewish History, Bernard Revel Graduate School,

                        Yeshiva University     Thesis Advisor: Professor Jacob Katz z”l

            1990    B.A. [Cum Laude] - Political Science/Jewish History, Yeshiva College,

                        Yeshiva University

II. Advanced Religious Education

            1990                Rabbinical Ordination, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary,

                                    Yeshiva University

            1987-90           Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University

                                    (New York and Jerusalem)

            1984-6             Yeshiva Program, Yeshiva University

            1983-4             Yeshivat Har-Etzion (Gush), Alon Shevut

            1982-3             Beit Medrash le-Torah (BMT), Jerusalem

II. Academic Appointments

2013-present   Professor Haver, Department of Jewish History

                        and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan University

2008-13           Senior Lecturer with tenure and Vice Chairman

                        Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry, Bar Ilan University

2003-08           Lecturer and Gwendolyn & Joseph Straus Teaching Fellow

                                    in Jewish Studies, Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry,

                                    Bar Ilan University

 

 

1993-2003       Instructor, Foreign Students Program and Dept. of Jewish

                        History, Bar-Ilan University

III. Previous Employment

2001-2011 Senior Fellow, Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research

            1991-1997 Director, Bar-Ilan University Mechina (Pre-Academic Program)

                                    for New Immigrants

 

            1997-2005 Senior Historian, Heritage Seminars for University Students in Eastern Europe

          

IV. Prizes, Fellowships, Grants, and Honors:

 

2014    Memorial Foundation for Jewish Cutlture - Research Grant

2013    Visiting Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

2012    Shkopf Prize for Research on the History of the Modern Rabbinate

2012    Pogatsch Prize for his Research on Jewish law and Modernity       

2012    Mandelbaum Scholar, University of Sydney

2012    Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism – Research Grant

2011    Outstanding Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University

2010-present Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Judaism

2010    Lookstein Center for Jewish Education in the Diaspora – Research Grant

2006    Finalist, American Association of Religion (AAR), First Book in History of Religion

2006    Finalist, Salo Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish History

2003    Gwendolyn & Joseph Straus Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies

2002    Jacob Katz Memorial Post-Doctoral Grant, Leo Baeck Institute

2002    Ihel Foundation Research Grant

2001    Rappaport Center for the Study of Assimilation Research Grant

2001    Braun Chair in the History of Prussian Jewry Research Grant

2000    “Shupf” Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Students

1999    Mendel and Hannah Horowitz Fellowship

1998    R. S.R. Hirsch Chair Fellowship

1998    Program in Conflict Resolution Fellowship

1996    Klein Chair in the History of the Modern Rabbinate Fellowship

1996    Leo Baeck Institute Doctoral Fellowship     

1995    Braun Chair in the History of Prussian Jewry Fellowship

1994    Ihel Foundation Research Grant

          

V. Biography

            Born November 10, 1964 in New York City. Grew up in Riverdale, N.Y. and attended the S.A.R. Academy and the Ramaz High School.  Married to Dr. Naomi (Weiss) Ferziger, with children: Ben-Zion (25), Yoel (23), Aviad (22), Dovie (20), Avital (17), and Adi (14). Living in Israel since September 1987, first in Jerusalem and since 1989 in Kfar-Sava.

 

 

 

 

VI. Organization of International Academic Conferences

 

Co-Convener, Oxford Summer Institute for Modern and Contemporary Judaism, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, June-July 2014.

 

Conference Committee, “Chief Rabbis: Between Religious and Political Leadership,” Bar-Ilan University, June 2014.

 

Co-Convener, Oxford Seminar on Orthodox Judaism in the 20^th Century, Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, January-June 2013

 

Conference Co-Chairman, “Orthodox Judaism in the Twentieth Century,” Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, January 2013.

 

Conference Committee, “Gender and Jewish Identity,” Bar-Ilan Univeristy, June 2010.

 

Conference Co-Chairman, "Schism, Sectarianism, and Denominationalism: Hungarian Jewry in a Comparative Perspective," Central European University, Budapest, October 2009.

 

Conference Co-Chairman, "200 Years Since the Birth of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch," Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, June 2008.

 

Conference Chairman, "The Role of Rabbis in Confronting Assimilation: Historical and Contemporary Models," Bar-Ilan University, June 2003.

 

Conference Coordinator, "Brooklyn and Beyond," Bar-Ilan University and The Hebrew University, Ramat-Gan and Jerusalem, November 1998.