Menachem Kellner

University of Haifa

Menachem Kellner is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa. He has taught philosophy at Washington University, religious studies at the College of William and Mary and at the University of Virginia and medieval and modern Jewish philosophy at the University of Haifa. He has also served as Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne and at Northwestern University. Menachem Kellner is the author of many books, including Maimonides on Human Perfection (Atlanta, 1990), Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People (Albany, 1992; Serbian translation, Belgrade, 2000), Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority (Albany, 1996), and Must A Jew Believe Anything? (London, 1999 -- a Koret Jewish Book Award finalist; 2nd, expanded edition, 2006).