J. IRVING ISRAEL  Contributor, Inthefray.com

J. Irving Israel grew up in Baltimore, Maryland in a committed, liberal Jewish family. He attended Oberlin College, where he majored in religion and Jewish studies with a concentration in modern religious thought. He is currently a graduate student in modern Jewish thought and contemporary philosophy at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and also teaches at the K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Congregation Religious School in Chicago. He has been a book reviewer for The Journal of Religion and is working as a research assistant for Paul Mendes-Flohr, a University of Chicago professor, on a forthcoming intellectual biography of the German Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.

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Last updated: April 9, 2001