Beginning with the fall semester, Yeshiva University’s Jewish Studies department will be headed by Dr. David Berger. The position will, however, be of slightly less influence than in past years. Four sub-departments will be run by their own directors. Bible and Philosophy sub-departments will join Hebrew and Jewish History. Berger’s role will be primarily managerial.

David Berger was the Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. [He] was also Visiting Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, a Fellow and Executive Committee member of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Co-chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and a member of the Council of the World Union of Jewish Studies, the Academic Committee of the Rothschild Foundation Europe, and served on the editorial board of Tradition.

A full interview with Dr. Berger has been published by The Commentator at Yeshiva College.