Scheindlin, Raymond P. 1940- (Raymond Paul Scheindlin)

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Scheindlin, Raymond P. 1940- (Raymond Paul Scheindlin)

PERSONAL:

Born May 13, 1940, in Philadelphia, PA; son of Irving and Betty Scheindlin; children: Dor Baer, Dahlia. Ethnicity: "Pennsylvanian, I guess." Education: Gratz College, teaching certificate, 1959; attended Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1959-60; University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (with honors), 1961; Jewish Theological Seminary of America, M.H.L., 1963, Rabbi, 1965; Columbia University, Ph.D. (with distinction), 1971.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY. Office—Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, assistant professor of Jewish studies, 1969-72; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, assistant professor of Hebrew language, 1972-74; Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, NY, associate professor, 1974-85, professor of medieval Hebrew literature, 1985—, head of department of Jewish literature, 1977-79, 1981-83, 1990-93, provost, 1984-89, leader of Genesis Seminar, 1992-97, director of Shalom Spiegel Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry. Kane Street Synagogue, Brooklyn, NY, rabbi, 1979-82. New York University, visiting associate professor, 1975-76; Columbia University, member of instructional staff, 1979, member of Seminar in Islamic Studies, c. 1980—; Oxford University, senior associate fellow of Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1989—; University of Pennsylvania, fellow of Center for Judaic Studies, 1993; Harvard University, visiting professor, 2007. Heritage Chamber Orchestra, member of advisory committee, 1986-88; Catalan Museum of Jewish Culture, member of board of advisors, 1993—. Member of editorial board, Jewish Quarterly Review, 1995—; member of editorial advisory committee or advisory board for other periodicals.

MEMBER:

World Union of Jewish Studies, PEN American Center, American Academy for Jewish Research (fellow; member of executive committee, 2002—), Association for Jewish Studies (member of board of directors, 1974-75), National Association of Professors of Hebrew, Society of Judeo-Arabic Studies (member of executive committee, 1991—), Jewish Publication Society of America (member of board of directors, 1987-93).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Guggenheim fellow, 1988; travel grant, Comite Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano para la Cooperación, Cultural y Educativa, 1991; Cultural Achievement Award, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2007; award from Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2005-06.

WRITINGS:

Form and Structure in the Poetry of al-Mu'tamid Ibn'Abbad, E.J. Brill (Leiden, Netherlands), 1974.

201 Arabic Verbs, Barron's (Woodbury, NY), 1978.

Miriam and the Angel of Death (opera libretto; story by Y.L. Peretz; music by Lee Goldstein), Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York, NY), 1984.

(Compiler and translator) Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life, Jewish Publication Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1986.

(Compiler and translator) The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poetry on God, Israel, and the Soul, Jewish Publication Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1991.

The Psalm of the Distant Dove (cantata; music by Hugo Weisgall), Theodore Presser (Bryn Mawr, PA), 1992.

(Translator) Ismar Elbogen, Jewish Liturgy in Its Historical Development, Jewish Publication Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1993.

The Book of Job, W.W. Norton (New York, NY), 1998.

A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1998.

(Editor, with Maria Rosa Menocal and Michael Sells) The Literature of Al-Andalus, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2007.

501 Arabic Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Aspects in a New, Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged, Barron's (Hauppauge, NY), 2007.

Contributor to books, including Rabbinic Fantasy, edited by David Stern and Mark Mirsky, Jewish Publication Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1990; TheLegacy of Islamic Spain, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi, E.J. Brill (Leiden, Netherlands), 1992; and Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain, Braziller (New York, NY), 1992. Contributor of articles, translations, and reviews to scholarly journals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Decter, Jonathan P., and Michael Rand, editors, Studies in Arabic and Hebrew Letters: In Honor of Raymond P. Scheindlin, Gorgias Press (Piscataway, NJ), 2007.