The Remarkable Life and Works of Victorian Britain's Greatest Hebraist: Christian David Ginsburg

The speaker is J.J. Kimche, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where he specialises in the intersection between European and Jewish Intellectual history during the post-Enlightenment era. He received his undergraduate education at Shalem College, Jerusalem, where he double-majored in Western philosophy and Jewish thought. Prior to that, he studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and completed his military service in the 101st Division of the IDF’s Paratroopers Brigade. J.J. has been involved in studying and teaching Jewish ideas throughout his entire adult life. Over the past decade he has taught Jewish and Western thought in various religious and academic institutions, including a three-year tenure as the Orthodox educator at MIT Hillel. He has also taught academic courses at several universities, including Harvard, Brandeis, Case Western Reserve, and Gratz College. J.J.'s popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, First Things, and City Journal. His articles have appeared in leading academic journals, and he currently serves as an editorial associate at the Harvard Theological Review. A writer and ghostwriter of numerous books in the field of Jewish thought, J.J.'s first academic work is due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in November 2024.

He may be found conversing with other scholars on the Podcast of Jewish Ideas, which he hosts.