Academic Biography
Professor, Rabbi, Expert in Judaism, Hebrew, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
Tzvee Zahavy has taught courses in Judaism, Jewish history
and culture, World Religions, and advanced seminars in classical Hebrew texts. His popular
course at the University of Minnesota, "Introduction to Judaism"
enrolled up to 400 students each year. In 2009 he taught Introduction to Liturgy, at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. Tzvee attended Yeshiva College and was graduated with a B.A. in mathematics as a member of Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society. He received a masters degree in Jewish History and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University, where he studied for four years with Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Zahavy studied with Jacob Neusner in the History of Judaism in late antiquity program of the religious studies department at Brown University. There he was recipient of a University Fellowship, a Tisch Fellowship, and Doctoral Dissertation grants from both the National and Memorial Foundations for Jewish Culture. After receiving his Ph.D. from Brown University, Zahavy was
appointed to the faculty of the University of Minnesota where he was promoted
to full professor in 1988.
He served as chairman of his department and as director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Zahavy was a visiting associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley and at the College of William and Mary. He has lectured at Macalester College, the University of Notre Dame, St. John's University, University of California at San Diego, Easton College, Trinity College, Spertus College, and Bar Ilan University. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and presented a paper at the World Congresses of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. In 1991 he lectured to academics in Religious Studies and Jewish Studies in Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing, China. Zahavy has been the recipient of several prestigious
honors and grants. These include the Distinguished Teaching Award from the
College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, a National Endowment for the
Humanities Stipend and an American Council of Learned Societies
Fellowship. He was the principal investigator, of an IBM sponsored grant for developing software to assist in teaching Hebrew, and Director of the Wexner Foundation Grant, "A Bridge to Scholarship". His published books are The Traditions of Eleazar Ben Azariah,Scholars Press for Brown University Judaic Studies, The Mishnaic Law of Blessings and Prayers: Tractate Berakhot, Brown Judaic Studies, 1987, The Talmud of the Land of Israel: Tractate Berakhot, University of Chicago Press, 1989, Studies in Jewish Prayer, University Press of America, 1990, The Talmud of Babylonia: An American Translation: Tractate Hullin, 3 volumes, Brown Judaic Studies, 1992-4. Zahavy has reviewed books for The Journal of Biblical Literature, The
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The Journal of the American Academy of Religion,
and The New Review of Books and Religion. He produced "Ancient Synagogues
Explored," an educational video tape in 1984, and a video tape, "Interviews
with Twin Cities Jewish Leaders" in 1985. He is primary author of
three IBM computer software programs: Milim: Vocabulary
Drill for Foreign Language Instruction, Milim for Windows, and VERBS, and
is co-author of SENTENCES. He writes daily at Tzvee’s Talmudic Blog, his popular Judaica oriented current affairs blog, which has logged numerous visits and page views. Tzvee is also active on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. | Academic Publications Online
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