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CAREER

Deutsch attended the University Of Chicago , where he received his Ph.D. as well as his Bachelor Of Arts and Master Of Arts Degrees .

Deutsch has taught religion at Swarthmore since 1995, and is currently an Associate Professor . He serves as chair of the college's humanities division and the interpertation theory program, and co-founded the Beit Midrash Center for the Study of Classical Jewish Texts. Deutsch was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006 to support his research on the Jew ish Ethnographer S. Ansky for his forthcoming book, ''The People’s Torah: Ansky and the Invention of Jewish Ethnography''.


WORKS

  • ''The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World'' (2003)

  • --- Maiden Of Ludmir

  • --- National Jewish Book Award finalist

  • ''Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism'' (2000, co-editor with Yvonne Chireau)

  • --- Black Jews and black-Jewish relations in the United States

  • ''The Gnostic Imagination: Gnosticism, Mandaeism, and Merkabah Mysticism'' (1995)

  • --- Gnosticism , Mandaeism , and Merkabah (early Jewish mystic beliefs)

  • ''Guardians of the Gate: Angelic Vice Regency in Late Antiquity'' (1999)

  • --- of Angel s in Late Antiquity



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