COHN-SHERBOK, DAN

COHN-SHERBOK, DAN
COHN-SHERBOK, DAN (1945– ), British professor of Judaism, author, and rabbi. Born and educated in the United States and at Cambridge University, Dan Cohn-Sherbok has held academic posts at the University of Kent and, since 1997, at the University of Wales-Lampeter in Wales, where he is professor of Judaism. An ordained Reform rabbi, Cohn-Sherbok is a truly prolific author, with more than 50 books to his credit on all aspects of Judaism and Jewish history. Among the more notable are The Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica (1992), The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Anti-Semitism (1992), and Judaism: History, Belief, and Practice (2003). He is also the author of an amusing autobiography, Not a Job for a Nice Jewish Boy (1993). (William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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