Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the Chancellor and Irving Lehrman Research Professor of American Jewish History and Sala and Walter Schlesinger Dean of the Gershon Kekst Graduate School at The

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(JTS). Schwartz is the first woman elected as chancellor in the history of the seminary.

Education

Schwartz is a graduate of

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and the

. She wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at JTS under the direction of former JTS chancellor Ismar Schorsch.

Career and publications

She has served in many leadership positions at JTS including dean of the undergraduate program, List College (1993-2018) and dean of the Graduate School (2010-2020). She is the first female chancellor appointed to serve at JTS and was also the first woman who served as provost. Her first published book was ''The Emergence of Jewish Scholarship in America: The Publication of the "

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"''. Her second book, ''The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life'', was awarded a 2006

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. She has published other articles and editorials in anthologies and publications.

References

Living people Jewish historians American religion academics Barnard College alumni Historians of Jews and Judaism Jewish Theological Seminary of America alumni American Conservative Jews Year of birth missing (living people) Jewish Theological Seminary of America faculty Jewish women writers {{US-historian-stub