Rabbi Gillman is
the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy
at the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. He graduated from McGill University in 1954,
was ordained at JTS in 1960 and received his PhD in philosophy from
Columbia University in 1975. His dissertation, Gabriel Marcel on
Religious Knowledge, was published by the University Press of America in
1980. Dr.
Gillman's second book, Sacred Fragments: Recovering Theology for the
Modern Jew, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, won
the 1991 National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Thought. His Conservative
Judaism: A New Century was published by Behrman House in 1993. The Death
of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought, Dr. Gillman's
fourth book, was published by Jewish Lights Publishing in 1997. His most
recent book, The Way into Encountering God in Judaism , was published by
Jewish Lights in spring 2000. A popular speaker and teacher, Dr. Gillman
has served as scholar-in-residence in many Conservative and Reform
congregations around the country.
