 David Biale
Professor and Chair
E: dbiale@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-7764
O: 3238 SSH
| Academic Biography | | David Biale was born in Los Angeles in 1949 and educated at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, the Hebrew University and UCLA, where he received his PhD in History. From 1986 to 1999, he served as Koret Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
During the same period he also served as adjunct professor in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History at UC Berkeley. In 1999, he was appointed Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History of University of California Davis.
He has also been visiting professor at UC Santa Cruz, UCLA, Haifa University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lady Davis Foundation ,the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Resesarch council. |
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| Research Interests | | Jewish intellectual and cultural history; European intellectual history; history of religion |
| Selected Publications | Editor (with Robert S. Westman), "Thinking Impossibilities: The Intellectual Legacy of Amos Funkenstein" (University of Toronto Press, 2008) "Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians" (University of California Press, 2007) Editor, Cultures of the Jews: A New History (Schocken Books, 2002) Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History (Schocken Books, 1986) Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Isreal to Contemporary America (Basic Books, 1992; University of California Press, 1997). |
| Courses Taught | | Surveys of Jewish history, History of the Holocaust, the
History of the End of the World, Utopianism in European thought |
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