13 Facts About Arthur Green

Arthur Green is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian.

Arthur Green was a founding dean of the non-denominational rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Boston.

Arthur Green describes himself as an American Jew who was educated entirely by the generation of immigrant Jewish intellectuals cast up on American shores by World War II.

Arthur Green grew up in Newark, New Jersey in a nonobservant Jewish home and attended Camp Ramah.

Arthur Green describes his father as a "militant atheist," but his mother, from a traditional family, felt obligated to give her son a Jewish education.

Arthur Green was sent to a liberal Hebrew School in the congregation of Rabbi Joachim Prinz.

Arthur Green returned to Brandeis in 1967, earning his doctorate with Professor Altman.

Arthur Green's dissertation became his book Tormented Master: The Life and Spiritual Quest of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav.

In 1968, Arthur Green founded Havurat Shalom, an experiment in Jewish communal life and learning that became the fountainhead of the Havurah movement in American Jewish life.

Between 1973 and 1984, Arthur Green taught in the Religious Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania.

Arthur Green has published both academic works on the intellectual history of Jewish mysticism and Hasidism, as well as writings of a more personal theological sort.

Arthur Green is known as a translator and commentator of Hasidic sources and is a key figure in the articulation of a Neo-Hasidic approach to Judaism.

Arthur Green's works have been translated into seven languages, including Hebrew.