Morris M. Faierstein

Morris M. Faierstein studied at the City College of New York, the Hebrew University, Yeshiva Pri Etz Hayyim (Jerusalem), Jewish Theological Seminary of America and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Temple University in Philadelphia. In 2001, he was awarded an honorary D.D. by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He is the author or editor of seven books, and has published more than one hundred articles and reviews in a wide variety of scholarly journals. He is currently an independent scholar. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, Cornell University, College of Wooster, Hochschuele fuer Juedische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany, and University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has lectured and taught in wide variety of settings in the United States, Europe and Israel.