About Rabbi Joseph Skloot:

Joseph A. Skloot is the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual History at HUC-JIR. He received his PhD in Jewish History at Columbia University, his rabbinical ordination at HUC-JIR, and his AB in History at Princeton University. He is a historian of Jewish culture and religious thought in the early modern and modern periods. His research explores the history of Hebrew books, Jewish-Christian relations, the development of Jewish law, and Reform Jewish theology. He is the author of First Impressions: Sefer Ḥasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing (Brandeis University Press). Prior to his appointment at HUC-JIR, he was the Associate Rabbi at Washington Hebrew Congregation and a rabbinic intern at Kol Ami.