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David Biale David Biale was born in Los Angeles and educated at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, the Hebrew University and UCLA, where he received his PhD in History. Since 1999, he has served as Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California at Davis. His books include, Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History; Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History and Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America. His latest book is Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians (University of California Press, 2007). Professor Biale is the editor of Cultures of the Jews: A New History (Schocken Books, 2002) and, together with Susannah Heschel and Michael Galchinsky, of Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (University of California Press, 1998). Two projects in progress are a book entitled Not in the Heavens: A History of Jewish Secularism and editing the "Judaism" section of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions. |
