Joseph Lowin

A Ph.D. from Yale University, Joseph Lowin has held faculty appointments at Yale, the University of Miami, and Touro College. He has taught courses on Jewish literature and has delivered lectures at several venues worldwide. Lowin was most recently Executive Director of the National Center for the Hebrew Language (NCHL), in New York City.

Lowin has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris and a Jerusalem Fellow at the Hebrew University in Israel, where he had a weekly radio segment on Israel public radio, "Hebrew Roots and Sources." Lowin's columns on the Hebrew language have appeared in HADASSAH MAGAZINE for more than 30 years and he has compiled these columns into three books: HebrewSpeak (1995), HebrewTalk (2004), and, in April, 2022, a third volume, HEBREW MATTERS. He is the author of a literary biography of the eminent American novelist and essayist, Cynthia Ozick, published in Twayne’s United States Authors Series. In 2015, Lowin published the book Art and the Artist in the Contemporary Israeli Novel, a study of eight major novelists and their artistic contributions to a culture and civilization that have often been otherwise preoccupied.