Religious Studies: Joel Gereboff

Department Chair & Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., Brown
Arrived at ASU: 1978

Office: ECA 373
Phone: (480) 965-7738 or 965-7145
E-mail: Joel.Gereboff@asu.edu
CV: (PDF)

Research Interests

Rabinnic Judaism, Ethics and Religion, Collective Memory, Religion and Emotions. Bioethics, Feminist Studies.

Biography

(Ph.D., Brown) is associate professor of Judaism with special interests in Rabbinic Judaism and religion and ethics. He has also taught at York University and the University of California at San Diego. He is quite active in the Jewish community and also as an medical advisor on Bioethics. He is currently Chair of the Department of Religious Studies and Interim Director of Graduate Studies.

Courses Taught

REL 317 - Intro to Rabbinic Judaism
REL 381 - Religion and Moral Issues
REL 405 - Seminar on Religion and the Emotions
REL 591 - Seminar on Collective Memory

Selected Publications

“Judaism” in The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, Ed. by John Corrigan, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 95-110.

"With Liberty and Haggadahs for All,” in Key Texts in American Jewish Life. Ed., Jack Kugelmass. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers Press (forthcoming 2003).

"Heroes and History in American Jewish Education." In Crisis and Reactions: The Hero in Jewish History. Ed. by Menachem Mor. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1994.

"To Be A Part or Not Apart from America: Social Justice and Reform Judaism." In Jewish Sects, Movements and Parties. Ed. by Menachem Mor. Omaha: Creighton University Press, 1992.

Rabbi Tarfon: The Tradition, The Man, and Early Rabbinic Judaism. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979.