J.J. Kimche

J.J. Kimche is a founding faculty member of the University of Austin, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy. An Englishman by upbringing and an intellectual historian by training, he took his B.A. in Western philosophy and Jewish thought at Shalem College in Jerusalem, and his Ph.D. at Harvard University, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

His work moves along the borderlands of European philosophy and Jewish thought: the Haskalah and its afterlives, the encounter of Kabbalah and Biblical exegesis with modernity, and the development of Jewish philosophy in light of the Scientific Revolution. His doctoral research provided an intellectual biography of Christian David Ginsburg, Victorian England’s greatest Hebraist and the subject of his forthcoming book.

He has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, MIT, Gratz College, and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and he writes for scholars and civilians alike: in the pages of First Things, the Wall Street Journal, and City Journal, among other publications. His essays appear in his bi-monthly newsletter, The Jew From Nowhere.