Turn it and Turn it Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts

About

Jon A. Levisohn is an associate professor of Jewish Education in the Department of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies at Brandeis as well as the Assistant Academic Director of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. He holds a doctorate from Stanford University and is an alumnus of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program and is the author of The Interpretive Virtues: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Teaching and Learning of Historical Narratives (Wiley-Blackwell 2013). Other recent work has appeared in Diaspora and Indigenous Minority Education (DIME) the Journal of Philosophy of Education and the Journal of Jewish Education. Susan P. Fendrick is an editor editorial consultant and teacher of adult Jewish education. She received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship program. Her writing has appeared in The Women's Torah Commentary and The Women's Haftarah Commentary The Women's Seder Sourcebook the haggadah A Night of Questions the journals Sh'ma and Living Text as well as numerous online publications. She previously served as Senior Research Associate at the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University.