Judith Bleich (born 1938) is a professor of Judaic studies at

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in Manhattan. She specializes in the nineteenth-century development of Reform and

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in the wake of the

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and emancipation, and has written extensively on modern Jewish history. She is also a member of the steering committee for the Orthodox Forum organized by Yeshiva University.

Biography

She was born Judith Ochs. In June 1961 she married Rabbi

J. David Bleich Judah David Bleich (born August 24, 1936 in Tarrytown, New York) is an authority on Jewish law and ethics, including Jewish medical ethics. He is a professor of Talmud ( rosh yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate o ...

. They have three children together.

Academic credentials

Bleich earned her bachelor's degree and Bachelor of Religious Education from Stern College. She earned her master's degree from Yeshiva University. She earned her doctorate from New York University in 1974 with her dissertation '' Jacob Ettlinger, His Life and Works: The Emergence of Modern Orthodoxy in Germany''.

Selected bibliography

A full list of Bleich's articles appear
here

Articles

*"A symposium on divided and distinguished worlds". ''Tradition'' 26,2 (1992) 4-62 *"Between East and West: modernity and traditionalism in the writings of Rabbi Yehi’el Ya’akov Weinberg". ''Engaging Modernity'' (1997) 169-273 *"The Emergence of an Orthodox Press in Nineteenth-Century Germany". ''Jewish Social Studies'' 42 3/4 (1980), 323-344 *"Liturgical innovation and spirituality: Trends and trendiness". ''Jewish Spirituality and Divine Law'' (2005) 315-405 *"Rabbi Akiva Eger and the Nascent Reform Movement", in ''Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies'' 9.B3 (1986) *"Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: Ish al Ha’edah". ''Jewish Action'' 56.4: 28 *"Rabbinic responses to nonobservance in the modern era". ''Jewish Tradition and the Non-Traditional Jew'' (1992) 37-115 *"The Testament of a Halakhist". ''Tradition'' 20.3 (1982)

Book chapters

*"The Circumcision Controversy in Classical Reform in Historical Context" in ''Turim: Studies in Jewish history and literature presented to Dr. Bernard Lander'' (Volume 1) (2007). *"Greater Resources, Greater Accountability" in ''The Ethical Imperative: Torah perspectives on ethics and values'' (2000) *"Military service: Ambivalence and contradiction" in ''War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition'' (2007), 415-476

References

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