Adam S. Ferziger is professor and holds the Rabbi S.R. Hirsch Chair in the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University. He is co-convener of the annual Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism, University of Oxford. A past of recipient of Bar-Ilan’s “Outstanding Lecturer” prize, his work Beyond Sectarianism (2015), won the National Jewish Book Award. His research focuses on the history of Jewish responses to modern and contemporary life. Adam authored the Melton text book for the course “Jewish Denominations” He is in CT for LimmudSA.

Raised in New York, the Ferzigers moved to Israel in 1987. They settled with their family in Kfar-Sava, where Adam served as rabbi for a wide spectrum of Israeli Jews. Today they live in Jerusalem.