11 Facts About Susannah Heschel

Susannah Heschel was born on 15 May 1956 and is an American scholar and professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College.

Susannah Heschel is the daughter of Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, and Sylvia, a concert pianist.

In 1972, Susannah Heschel applied to the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, which did not ordain women at that time and turned her down.

Susannah Heschel received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

Susannah Heschel served as lecturer and then assistant professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University from 1988 to 1991, and as Abba Hillel Silver associate professor of Jewish studies at Case Western Reserve University from 1991 to 1998.

In 2005, Susannah Heschel received an academic fellowship from the Ford Foundation which she used to convene a series of international conferences at Dartmouth College, that brought together scholars in the fields of Jewish studies and Islamic studies.

Susannah Heschel serves on the Beirat of the Zentrum Judische Studien in Berlin.

Susannah Heschel started a custom in the early 1980s of including an orange on the Passover Seder plate.

In 2006, Susannah Heschel served on the Green Zionist Alliance slate to the World Zionist Congress.

Susannah Heschel is an honorary trustee of the Susannah Heschel School in New York.

Susannah Heschel has co-edited, with Christopher Browning and Michael Marrus, Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations.