Henry Abramson (born 1963) is the
dean
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of the
Lander College of Arts and Sciences
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in Flatbush, New York. Before that, he served as the Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services at
Touro College
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's Miami branch (
Touro College South
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). He is notable for his teachings on
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and
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as a religion.
Biography
Henry Abramson was born and raised in
Iroquois Falls, Ontario
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The town centre lies 11 km east of Hwy 11 on the banks of the Abitibi River, west of Lake Abitibi. Timmins, one of the largest cities in ...
. He received his doctorate in History from the
University of Toronto
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in 1995, studying under Professor
Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American professor of history, political science, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has been with the university since 1980, and became a Fe ...
, earning the first
PhD in Ukrainian-Jewish history awarded since the establishment of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies there. His research was also supervised by Professor
Michael Marrus
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Overview
Marrus (1941–2 ...
and Professor
Zvi Gitelman Zvi Gitelman is a Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
Career
Gitelman received a Ph.D., an M.A., and a B.A. degree from Columbia University. He has usually written about the connection of ...
.
Abramson was named to the
Shevchenko Scientific Society
The Shevchenko Scientific Society () is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication that was founded in 1873.
Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society ...
in 1999.
He was Assistant and later Associate Professor of History/Jewish Studies at
Florida Atlantic University
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from 1996-2006 and during that time held appointments at a number of institutions including
Oxford University
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,
Cornell University
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,
Harvard University
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, and
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
. While teaching at Hebrew University, he simultaneously attended the class taught by Rabbi
Mendel Weinbach
Chona Menachem Mendel (Mendel) Weinbach (September 24, 1933 – December 11, 2012) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, educator, author, and speaker. As the co-founder and dean of Ohr Somayach Institutions, a Jerusalem-based yeshiva for newly-obse ...
at
Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem
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. His study partners there included Rabbi
Natan Gamedze. As Associate Professor and University Library Scholar of Judaica, he worked with the large collection of Yiddish materials in the Wimberly Library, and in this capacity he founded the Kultur Festival of Yiddish Culture in Boca Raton.
In 2006, Abramson moved to his position at Touro College South. Since 2015 he serves as Dean of the Avenue J campus of
Touro College
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in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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. He has since founded the
Flatbush Society of Fellows Flatbush may refer to:
* Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City
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* Flat Bush
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, an honours program for students at the Avenue J campus of Touro College.
Effective from September 2018, he was named Dean and Chief Academic Officer of Machon L’Parnasa Institute for Professional Studies at Touro College. The responsibilities of this position include working with the College architects and construction teams in the design and construction of a new campus, the overhaul of existing associate degree programs and the creation of vocation-oriented academic programming. Abramson also gives a class on the Mesillat Yesharim at the Young Israel of
Lawrence
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Cedarhurst, and an online Jewish History course for Landers college for men as well as for Lander College of Arts & Sciences. The online Jewish History course gives an extensive amount of articles, videos, and material covering various topics throughout Jewish history. Including topics such as the Spanish Expulsion, the Haskalah, and the Holocaust, Abramson's online Jewish History course allows his students to gain deeper insight and greater understanding of their roots and their ancestors' history.
Scholarship
Henry Abramson is largely known for his scholarship in Ukrainian Jewish history and antisemitic iconography. Abramson also was curator for an exhibit on the history of antisemitic iconography in Florida entitled "The Art of Hatred".
Abramson has also been a popularizer of Jewish thought, publishing a primer of Talmud and other works on the Jewish intellectual tradition. He is also known for his work on Rabbi
Kalonymus Kalmish Shapiro, a Hasidic Rabbi active in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust. In 2014, Abramson published "The Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Levels of Mercy", a translation of ''
Tomer Devorah
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'' by
Moses Cordovero
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("Date Palm of Devorah").
Abramson is the author of the Jewish History in Daf Yomi
podcast, a project of the Orthodox Union Daf Yomi Initiative. Since the Spring of 2019, he has been recording brief videos discussing historical aspects of the daily Talmud study program called
Daf Yomi
''Daf Yomi'' ( he, דף יומי, ''Daf Yomi'', "page of the day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covere ...
. The overall project will require over 2,700 videos over seven years of research.
References
External links
Henry Abramson on YouTubeHenry Abramson's Website
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Touro College faculty
University of Toronto alumni
Florida Atlantic University faculty
Historians of the University of Oxford
Harvard University faculty
Cornell University faculty
Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
Jewish American historians
American male non-fiction writers
People from Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Living people
Historians of Jews and Judaism
1963 births
Canadian emigrants to the United States
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American Jews