Asher Biemann

University of Virginia

Asher Biemann is Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and the Ida and the Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia. He sits on the Directors Council of the Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought at Princeton University. He is the author of Inventing New Beginnings: on the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism (Stanford University Press, 2009), and the editor of the Martin Buber Reader (Palgrave, 2001) and Martin Buber: Sprachphilosophische Schriften (Guetersloh, 2003). He is currently at work on Dreaming of Michaelangelo: Italy in the German-Jewish Imagination.