Joseph Ringel

Professor of Jewish Studies
PhD, Brandeis University
302 Faulkner House

Contact

Telephone: (973)408-3222
Fax: (973)408-3941
Email: jringel@drew.edu

Biography

Joseph Ringel is assistant professor of Jewish studies at Drew this academic year. He received his PhD from the Dept. of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University, where he served as a fellow at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, in August of 2011. His dissertation, entitled “The Sephardic Rabbinate, Sephardic Yeshivot, and the Shas Educational System,” deals with the reconstruction of Sephardic identity in Sephardic religious schools that service Jews of Middle Eastern origin in the State of Israel. His articles have appeared in The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (edited by Norman Stillman) among other publications. He is currently working on publishing articles based on his dissertation. Prof. Ringel’s research interests include the Jewish communities of Islam, rabbinic responses to modernity, and the experience of Sephardim and Mizrahim in the State of Israel.

Publications and Presentations

“A Third Way: ‘Iyyun Tunisa’i as a Traditional Critical Method of Talmud Study,” Forthcoming Presentation at The International Conference on Contemporary Jewish Lamdanut, The Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute, December 2011 (upcoming).

“Method and Culture: The Background behind the Halakhic Debate over the Draft of Yeshiva Students to [the] IDF,” Presentation at the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Conference, June 2011.

“The Place of the Land of Israel in the Re-Creation of Diasporic Ethnic Identity,” Digital Media and Poster Presentation at the forthcoming Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Conference, December 2010.

“What is a Sepharadi? A Debate between Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef and Rabbi Eliyahu Zinni,” presentation at the AJS Conference, December 2009.

“Lehaḥazir ‘Aṭarah leYoshenah: The Shas Party and its Relationship to the Jewish State,” presentation at the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Conference, May 2008.

“Aegean Sea, Islands, and Coastal Cities” “Akrish, Isaac,” “Akrish, Isaac ben Abraham,” “Alkabetz, Solomon,” “Aydin,” “Capsali, Elijah,” in The Encyclopedia on Jews in the Islamic World (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010).
“‘There but for the Grace of God Go I!’ A Theological Contrast between Jean Calvin and Maharal,” in Cortex: Brandeis Graduate Journal (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2005).