“Good Jews and Loyal Englishmen”: Biblical Criticism and Jewish Acculturation in Victorian England

Dr. Edward Breuer, a native of Montreal and graduate of Concordia’s Liberal Arts College, received his PhD at Harvard. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Loyola University, before moving to Israel with his family in 2001. Dr. Breuer teaches and is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the Jacob Perlow Visiting Associate Professor in Judaic Studies at Yale. His research and publications have centered upon the Jewish Enlightenment and the writings of Moses Mendelssohn, as well as the Jews and the Bible in the modern era. He is the author of The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture (Harvard University Press, 1996) as well as the translator and co-editor of the forthcoming Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings from Yale University Press.