- Arthur Green
Arthur Green is an American Jewish rabbi and educator.
Arthur (Art) Green grew up in
Newark ,New Jersey in a nonobservant Jewish home. He describes his father as a "militant atheist," but his mother, from a traditional family, felt obligated to give her son a Jewish education.Being Art Green http://hebrewcollege.edu/hct/spring-summer_2003/focus/beinggreen.html] Raised in theConservative movement , Green attendedCamp Ramah . In 1959, he studied atBrandeis University , where he went through a crisis of faith and sought new approaches to Judaism. Green's professors at Brandeis includedNahum Glatzer andAlexander Altmann . After earning his Ph.D., Green became Philip W. Lown professor (now emeritus) of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. In 1967, he was ordained as a Conservative rabbi by theJewish Theological Seminary .Green has published many works on
Jewish mysticism andhasidism . Invited to deliver a series of lectures atYale University , Green was described as "one of the preeminent authorities on Jewish spirituality, mysticism and Hasidism." [http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-09-26-03.all.html]In 1968, Green was one of the founders of
Havurat Shalom . In 1987-1993, he served as Dean and President of theReconstructionist Rabbinical College . In 2003, he became the first Dean for the non-denominational rabbinical program at the Boston-areaHebrew College . He also serves as the Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Theology and Mysticism at Hebrew College.Green is a founder of
Neo-Hasidism , the significant revival of interest in Hasidic Judaism on the part of non-Orthodox Jews in different decades due to the writings of non-Orthodox teachers of Hasidic Judaism. Green has done this through his scholarly and spiritual writing and teaching, his involvement in Havurat Shalom, and his participation as a faculty member in the Institute for Jewish Spirituality, among other activities.Published work
*"Devotion and Commandment: The Faith of Abraham in the Hasidic Imagination", The Efroymson Lectures of 1986. Hebrew University Press, 1989.
*"A Guide to the Zohar". Stanford University Press, 2003.
*Ed. "Jewish Spirituality". Crosswood Books, 1987.
*"Keter: the Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism". Princeton University Press, 1997.
*Co-editor. "Mysticism, Hermeneutics, and Religion: Studies in Judaism". SUNY Press, 1984.
*"Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology". Jason Aaronson, 1992.
*Editor, "Kol Ha-Neshamah". The Reconstructionist Prayer Book, 1989.
*"These Are the Words: A Vocabulary of Jewish Spiritual Life". Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 1999.
*"The Language of Truth: Teachings from the Sefer Emet". Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998.
*Ed. & trans.. "Upright Practices and The Light of the Eyes: Homilies on Genesis, Menahem of Chernobyl". Paulist Press, 1982.
*"Tormented Master: A Life of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav". University of Alabama Press, 1980.
*"Your Word is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayer" (co-ed. Barry Holtz). Paulist Press, 1993.References
*Michael Fagenblat. "A Way through the World" "The Jerusalem Report" March 24, 2003
*Joseph Dan. Review: "Green's 'Tormented Master'" in "The Jewish Quarterly Review" 74:3 (Jan. 1984), pp. 333-336
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