Jon A. Levisohn

Personal pages

• • Brandeis ScholarWorks Page (includes a list of publications)

  • Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies (NEJS) at Brandeis

  • Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education (MCSJE)

  • Academia.edu (includes access to most publications)

Recent media

• • Learning About Learning podcast and YouTube series

  • Pholoso Ministries Podcast (October 2023), "How to Study the Bible in Context" 

  • Prizmah Podcast (July 2022), "Educating Jewish Producers" (with Stephanie Ives and Rafi Cashman)

  • Opening Doors: Jewish Education Podcast for NRJE (June 2022), "How Is the Study of Sacred Texts Possible for Secular People?" (with Ruth Calderon)

  • Makom Salon (February 2021), "Love of Israel in a Time of Populism" (with Pnina Agenyahu)

Selected recent scholarship

• • "The Purpose and Methods of Philosophy of Jewish Education: A Critical History of Seymour Fox's Theory of Vision" (forthcoming, draft available here)

  • Envisioning Zion, Journal of Jewish Education 89:1 (2023), pp. 39-35

  • "Individual and Collectivism in a Time of Plague," in Torah in a Time of Plague, Erin Leib Smokler, ed. (2021)

  • "A New Paradigm of Jewish Literacy" (2019) and "Producers Not Possessors: A Direction for Jewish Education in Turbulent Times" (2021), produced as a fellow of the Applied Research Collective for American Jewry at NYU (scroll down for the two essays)

Other

• • Statement on the Bronfman Report (March 16, 2022)

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