Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, PhD
Director of Jewish Studies Program | George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair | Professor of Religion
Dr. Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is the George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair and Professor of Religion and Founding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at 小猪视频 in Winter Park, Florida. Dr. Greenberg is the author and editor of books and articles in modern and contemporary Jewish thought, comparative religion, women and religion, and cross-cultural views of love and the body, including the 2-volume Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (2008), From Spinoza to Levinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (2009), The Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic (2017), Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Lexington Publishers (2018), and the Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body (March 2023). At present, she is working on a monograph titled 鈥淔ood and Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives.鈥� Dr. Greenberg is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and serves on the AAR鈥檚 Body and Religion and the Comparative Studies in Religion committees.
Dr. Greenberg lectures nationally and internationally and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Cornell Distinguished Faculty Award, the Arthur Vining Davis Award, and the Presidential Award for the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion from 小猪视频. In 2017, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the聽Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and in 2018, she was a Research Fellow at the聽Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universit盲t in Bad Homburg and Frankfurt. During her most recent Fulbright-Nehru Scholar Award in 2019, she taught at the University of Mumbai in India, and conducted research on love and the body in Hindu-Jewish comparative philosophy and religion.
Dr. Greenberg is active in interreligious dialogue, having been a delegate and speaker at several international meetings including: The International Conference on Cohesive Societies, sponsored by The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2019); TheIII Scholas Chairs International Congress: Peacebuilding through Culture of Encounter, Truman Research Institute, Jerusalem (2017); 鈥淗ealing Hatred: Spiritual Challenges in a Context of Political Conflict,鈥� co-sponsored by the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, Jerusalem (2017); India-Israel Academic Dialogues: Political and Cultural Crossings,鈥� New Delhi, India (2017);Asian-Israel Interfaith Meeting, Jerusalem (2016); Senior Investigator, Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, Garrison, New York (2016); International Scholars鈥� Abrahamic Trialogue, Amman, Jordan (2008); and the Parliament of the World鈥檚 Religions Meetings in Chicago, (1993); Cape Town, 1999; Barcelona, 2004, and 2021 meeting (virtual). In the 2020-2021 Academic year, she received the Interreligious Chaplaincy Program Award from the Graduate Theological Union and in 2022, she 小猪视频d as interreligious chaplain.
Books
Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body, Co-Editor with George Pati, Routledge, 2023
Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Co-Editor with Zayn R. Kassam and Jehan Bagli.聽Dordrecht: Springer, 2018
Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Co-Editor with Ithamar Theodore, Lexington Publishers, 2018
The Body in Religion:听Cross-cultural Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury Academic, December 2017
From Spinoza to Levinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy, Edited with Zeev Levy. New York: Peter Lang, 2009
The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions聽(2 Volumes), Author and Editor, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2008
Better than Wine: Love, Poetry, and Prayer in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig, AAR Series Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion, Atlanta: Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1997
Articles and Book Chapters
Integrating The Natural, the Divine and the Erotic in the Gita Govinda and Shir Ha-Shirim,听Finding Radha: The Quest for Love, co-edited by
Namita Gokhale and聽Malashri Lal. Penguin, 2018
Introduction and Reading Eros, Sacred Place, and Divine Love in the Gitagovinda and Shir Ha-Shirim,听Dharma and Halacha: Comparative Studies in Hindu-Jewish Philosophy and Religion.聽Co-Edited by Ithamar Theodore and Yudit Greenberg, Lexington Publishers, 2018
Women in the Jewish Tradition: Contemporary and Future Trends,听Religion and the Future of Women, Edited by Arvind Sharma. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2019
Religion and Ritual: Contemporary Views and Traditional Practices, with Hanna Cody in聽A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age,听Edited by Geraldine Biddle-Perry. London: Bloomsbury Publishers, 2018
Erotic Representations of the Divine,听Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, December 2016
Hinduism and Judaism,听Brill鈥檚 Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Vol. VI, 2014
The Languages of Love and Desire in the Gitagovinda and the Song of Songs,听Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, Fall 2013
Hindu-Jewish Dialogue: A New Tradition in the Making,听Between Mumbai and Manila, Ed. Manfred Hutter, Bonn University Press, 2013
Love in the Jewish Tradition,听The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish Religion,听History, and Culture,听Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Hindu-Jewish Summits 2007-2008: A Postmodern Religious Encounter,听Interreligious Insight,聽January 2009
Prayer for Redemption and Redemption as Prayer in Judaism,听Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought,聽vol. 56, 1-2, 2009
From Death to Immortality: Eros in Plato, Rosenzweig, and Levinas,听The Proceedings of the International Symposium of the Brazilian Society for Phenomenology, 2007
What Does Revelation in聽the Star of Redemption聽Reveal? Negotiating the Spaces between Rosenzweig鈥檚 Life and Thought. The聽Proceedings of the International Congress of Franz Rosenzweig鈥檚 New Thinking, Edited by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik, 2006
Gene Borowitz鈥� Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew, in聽Reviewing the Covenant, ed. Ochs with Borowitz, Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2000
The Choosing, Not the Chosen People, in聽Jewish Identity in the Postmodern Age, Paragon House Press, 1999
Towards a Dialogical Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, in聽Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, co-authored by Gibbs, Kepnes, and Ochs, Westview Press, 1998
Love and Reason in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig and Hermann Cohen,听The European Legacy聽2:1, 1997
Kabbalah and Postmodern Jewish Philosophy: A Response,听Textual Reasoning,听Journal of the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network, Vol. 4, Number 3, 1997
The Hermeneutic Turn in Franz Rosenzweig鈥檚 Theory of Revelation,听Interpreting Judaism in a Postmodern Age, Edited by Steven Kepnes, New York University Press, 1996
F. Rosenzweig and M. Heidegger on the Limits of Language as Poetry,听History of European Ideas, Vol. 20, Number 4, 1995
A Postmodern Jewish Critique of Rosenzweig's Speech Thinking and the Concept of Revelation, in聽Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. II, No. 1, 1992
Book Reviews
Review of Benjamin Sommer,听Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition, in聽Reading Religion. August 2018
Review of Bhattacharya Saxena, Neela.聽Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover鈥檚 Journey into Christianity and Judaism聽in the Journal of聽Indo-Judaic Studies, August 2018
Courses Taught
Jewish Life and Thought; The Hebrew Bible; Love and Sex in the Hebrew Bible; Mysteries and Marvels in the Bible (Rfla), Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought; Modern and Contemporary Jewish Literature; Portraits of the Modern Jew in American Film and Fiction; Introduction to Modern Hebrew and Contemporary Israeli Culture (RCC) Women in Judaism and Islam; Love, Eros, and Religion; Religion and the Body; Body in Religion: Crosscultural Perspectives (Honors); Jerusalem: History, Religion, Politics (Semester-long course; Field Study); Jewish New York (Field study); Introduction to Islam; Far Eastern Religions; Near Eastern Religions; Innovate, Create, Elevate your Spiritual Identity (Rfla); India and the Infinite (Field Study); Spiritual Technologies of Yoga, Meditation, and Prayer (Community Engagement); Jewish Life in Central Florida (Community Engagement);聽Women and Religion (Community Engagement);聽Religion and Science in Dialogue
REL 217 Jewish Life and Thought
Examine historical, literary, and theological masterpieces that explore law, ritual, Zionism, Israel, American Judaism, and the changing roles of women in contemporary Judaism.
REL 300 Religion and the Body
Unpack Eastern and Western traditions, beliefs, and notions of the body and embodiment. You鈥檒l focus on mind/body dualism, sexual norms and taboos, purity and impurity, gender, and sexual identity.
Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion; Association for Jewish Studies; European Association for Jewish Studies; World Congress of Jewish Studies; Franz Rosenzweig International Society;聽Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy; Fulbright Association;聽Mediterranean Studies Association聽European Association for Jewish Studies
Features
April 28, 2023
Around the World in 8 Days
With passion and purpose, Tars set out this past spring break to explore real-world issues and grow as global citizens.
January 13, 2023
Greenberg Publishes Book on Religion and the Body
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume of its kind to feature multi-religious perspectives on the body and embodiment.
May 05, 2022
Tars Taking Action
A trio of Tars are putting the 鈥渁ct鈥� in 鈥渁ctivist鈥� through educational outreach and the creation of the first-ever Take Action Institute.
March 24, 2022
Greenberg Publishes Response to Online Hate
Religion professor Yudit Greenberg responds to recent synagogue attacks with an article addressing the issue of online hate.
August 14, 2021
Greenberg speaks at Harvard University Symposium
Religion professor Yudit Greenberg speaks at the Harvard University Symposium on topics related to Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
May 04, 2021
Peak Performance
Rollins鈥� seven valedictorians reminisce about favorite memories, share secrets to success, reveal aspirations, and look forward to what鈥檚 next.