Jon A. Levisohn

Jon A. Levisohn is Associate Professor and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University, and directs the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education. Professor Levisohn’s areas of specialization include philosophy of education, Jewish education, hermeneutics and the epistemology of the humanities, and scholarship of teaching classical Jewish texts. His most recent courses taught include Philosophy of Jewish Education, Tikkun Olam/Repairing the World: Service and Social Justice in Theory and Practice, A Philosophical Introduction to Judaism, and Studying Sacred Texts.