Congratulations to Shaul Magid on his appointment as Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence at Harvard Divinity School, a new five-year, renewable position. Professor Magid received rabbinical ordination in 1984, earned a master’s degree in Jewish thought from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Prof. Magid has published eight books and over a hundred scholarly articles and essays on a range of topics, including Hasidism, Jewish thought, and Jewish mysticism. He has held professorships at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Indiana University, a research fellowship at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and taught at Dartmouth College before coming to Harvard.
