Speaker Profile Dr. David Berger

David Berger is Ruth and I. Lewis Gordon Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He was Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for many years, Visiting Professor at Yale and Harvard Universities, and President of the Association for Jewish Studies. His books include The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages, which was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America, The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Scandal of Orthodox Indifference, and two volumes of collected essays: Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue: Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations, and Cultures in Collision and Conversation: Essays in the Intellectual History of the Jews.