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Abraham Socher is the founder and editor of the Jewish Review of Books. He was educated at UCLA, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a PhD in History.
His first book was a biography of the eighteenth century philosopher Solomon Maimon.[1]
Most recently, he is the author of Liberal and Illiberal Arts: Essays (Mostly Jewish),[2] which Tradition Magazine called "A true reckoning of Jewish ideas and Western thought and culture—both classic and popular—and its discontents, especially as played out on the contemporary university campus.”[3]
His edition of the Jewish Enlightenment classic The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: the Complete Translation (Princeton University Press) was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist.[4]
Socher was, for many years, a professor at Oberlin College where he chaired the Jewish Studies program, and was a public critic of Oberlin College's conduct in campus controversies over the allegedly antisemitic social media posts of Joy Karega[5] and its widely publicized conflict with Gibson's Bakery.[6]
His essays have appeared in, among other journals, Commentary Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), the Wall Street Journal, as well as the Jewish Review of Books.
References[edit]
- ^ Socher, Abraham P. (2006). The radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, heresy, and philosophy. Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press. ISBN 0804751366.
- ^ Socher, Abraham P. (2022). Liberal and Illiberal Arts. Paul Dry Books. ISBN 9781589881600.
- ^ "New and Noteworthy Books". Tradition Online.
- ^ "The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation | Jewish Book Council". 2018.
- ^ "Karega-Mason's Facebook Posts Anti-Semitic".
- ^ "O Oberlin, My Oberlin". 14 August 2019.
Socher, Abraham P. (2006). The Radical Enlightenment of Solomon Maimon: Judaism, Heresy, and Philosophy <Stanford University Press. ISBN 0804751366.
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