Hannah Hashkes

Dr. Hannah E. Hashkes received her PhD in Philosophy from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2005. Previously Hannah received a BA and MA in Hebrew literature and philosophy from Hebrew University. Dr. Hashkes also graduated as a teacher of Bible and literature from Kerem Teachers Seminary, and held a scholarship in the Shalom Hartman Institute. She worked as a teacher and educator at the Hebrew University High School in Jerusalem and at the Anna Frank High School in northern Israel, and was a philosophy instructor at University of Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky University, and Xavier University. From 2005 to mid 2009, Hannah was a visitor assistant professor, and then an assistant professor, at the Siegal College of Judaic Studies in Cleveland teaching Bible, Woman’s Studies and Jewish Thought. 

Topics of work at Shalem

At Shalem Hannah Hashkes is working on the application of postmodern philosophical discourse to the study of Jewish theology, including: Pragmatist Epistemology and Rabbinic Discourse; Feminist Jewish Theology; and Contemporary and Post Modern American Jewish Thought.

Select Publications

Studying Torah as a Reality Check, A Close Reading of a Midrash, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2008, Volume 16 (2), 149-193.

Women’s Identity and Judaism: Tradition and Change. In: To Be A Jewish Woman – Vol. 2, Jerusalem: Urim Publications, 2003.

Cleveland Jewish News, Weekly Torah Columnist,  February-April 2007.   

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