Rabbi Emanuel S. Goldsmith

Rabbi Emanuel S. Goldsmith is a Professor of Hebrew and Yiddish Literature and Judaic Studies at Queens College of the City University of New York. Dr. Goldsmith has recently taught Yiddish and Hebrew Literature And Jewish Studies at Oxford University, as well as Brandeis University, Clark University, Boston University, and the University of Connecticut.

He is the author of the books Modern Yiddish Culture: The Story of the Yiddish Language Movementand Modern Trends in Jewish Religion.He has edited the two-volume anthology in Yiddish entitled Yiddish Literature in America. He is also the coeditor of Thinkers and Teachers of Modern Judaism, The American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Dynamic Judaism: The Essential Writings of Mordecai M. Kaplan, Shapers and Thinkers of Modern Judaism, and Men and Ideas of East European Jewry. His work has also appeared in Jewish Book Annual and in Numerous journals and anthologies, including. His recording, I Really Love Yiddish: A Mini-Course in Yiddish Based on Literature, Folklore and Humor, has been widely acclaimed.

Rabbi Goldsmith serves on the editorial board of Jewish Frontier, and on the executive committees of Congress for Jewish Culture, and Highland Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought.

Rabbi Goldsmith has published two essays on the thought of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan in these books: Religion in a Pluralistic Age, edited by Donald A. Crosby and Charley D. Hardwick, published by Peter Lang Publishing, and Beyond Tradition: The Struggle For a New Jewish Identity edited by Bonnie Cousens, published by the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism.