Allan Arkush

SUNY, Binghamton

Allan Arkush (State University of New York) is Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He holds degrees from Cornell University, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Brandeis University. He is the author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment and co-editor of Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism, Essays in Memory of Alexander Altmann. His numerous essays on modern Jewish thought and Zionism have appeared in Modern Judaism, Jewish Social Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, Polity and other periodicals and books. He is the translator of Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalemand Gershom Scholem’s Origins of the Kabbalah. Professor Arkush has been a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Starr Fellow at Harvard University. Since 2006 he has been the editor of AJS Perspectives, the magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies. Currently, Professor Arkush is at Princeton University as the Tikvah Project 2009-2010 Research Fellow.