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February 9 2010

Matt Goldish


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Matt Goldish
OSU Department of History
306 Dulles Hall
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH, 43210
Phone: 614-292-1358
Fax: 614-292-8838

goldish.1@osu.edu

Phone: 614-292-1358

Fax: 614-292-8838

 
Matt Goldish

Matt Goldish joined the Department in 1999 as a specialist in Jewish and European History, with interests in Messianism, Jewish-Christian intellectual relations, and Sephardic studies. He holds the Samuel M. and Esther Melton Chair in Jewish History.

He earned his B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. His Ph.D. (1996) is from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Professor Goldish has published Judaism in the Theology of Sir Issac Newton (Dordrecht: Kluwer-- International Archives of the History of Ideas, 1998), The Sabbatean Prophets (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004), Jewish Questions: Responsa on Jewish Life in the Early Modern Period (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), and several edited collections, as well as articles and book reviews. Professor Goldish is active as an invited lecturer in various academic and community environments. He currently serves as director of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State (meltoncenter.osu.edu).

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