Campus News Steven Fine, the scholar who will serve as University of Cincinnati's new Judaic studies department head, will deliver the 24th annual Rabbi Louis Feinberg Lecture on Thursday, May 10, in Lindner Hall at the College of Business Administration on UC's main campus.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Beginning in September, Fine will be joining the Judaic studies department at UC as the Jewish Foundation Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, as well as department head. He comes to UC from Baltimore Hebrew University, where he has taught since 1994. Recently, he has been overseas, serving as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and as a fellow of the Dinur Institute for Jewish History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Fine received his MA from the University of Southern California and his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His three edited volumes presented the fundamental scholarship for the history of the synagogue, its liturgy and for the history of Jewish art.