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November 12, 2012

God of Whose Fathers? Converts to Judaism and the Language of Prayer

Rachel Furst

Rachel Furst

Rachel Furst is a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, having completed her PhD in Medieval Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  She received a BA in Medieval Studies from Barnard College and an MA in Jewish History from Hebrew University and is a graduate of the Advanced Talmud Institute at Matan. Rachel teaches Jewish history, Jewish law, and rabbinic literature at institutions in Israel and abroad.

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Jewish prayer seeks universality, yet reflects particularity through its focus on a national patriarchal heritage. Where does a convert to Judaism fit into this language of prayer?

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