Jack Wertheimer
Jack Wertheimer is a Professor of American Jewish History at the Jewish [Theological Seminary of America], the flagship yeshiva of Conservative Judaism. He is the former Provost of JTS, and was the founding director of the Joseph and Miriam Ratner Center for the Study of Conservative Judaism. Wertheimer has written and edited numerous books and articles on the subjects of modern Jewish history, education, and life.
Wertheimer won the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Contemporary Jewish Life in 1994 for A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America. He was a finalist in 2008 in the category of Education and Jewish Identity for his edited volume ''Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice.''
Books Written or Edited
- Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany, Oxford University Press, 1987', Cambridge University Press, 1987A People Divided: Judaism in Contemporary America, Basic Books, 1993; Brandeis University Press, 1997The Uses of Tradition: Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era, JTS Press/Harvard, 1993
- ', NYU Press, 1993Tradition Renewed: A History of the Jewish Theological Seminary, JTS Press, 1997', Rutgers University Press, 2000Jewish Religious Leadership: Image and Reality, JTS Press, 2004Family Matters: Jewish Education in an Age of Choice, Brandeis University Press, 2007
- ', Brandeis University Press, 2007Learning and Community: Jewish Supplementary School in the Twenty-first Century, Brandeis University Press, 2009, Princeton University Press, 2018
- Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community, Brandeis University Press, 2021