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thumb Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. (born July 17, 1954) is an historian of American Jewish History, college professor, and the senior rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://kenesethisrael.org/ )〕 located in Elkins Park, PA. He is the author of numerous books and articles including: ''Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism'' (1995) and ''Sharing Sacred Moments'' (1999), and a co-editor of ''Reform Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook'' (1993) and ''New Essays in American Jewish History'' (2009). Since 2010 he has also published articles on Judaism and art. ==Early life, family and education== Sussman was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in suburban Pikesville, Maryland. His father, Charles Sussman (1925–2010), was awarded a bronze star and other decorations for valor during World War II while serving in the 95th Infantry Division.〔 After the war he was a teacher and an administrator in the Baltimore County Public Schools.〔 His mother, Freda (Sacki) Sussman, was born in Bamberg, Germany in 1925. She fled Nazi Germany and resettled in the United States in 1938 and her family escaped the following year. Sussman married Elizabeth (née Zeller) on August 6, 1977 in Rye, New York. She has had a career as both a Jewish educator and a music educator. They have five children and two grandchildren. Sussman also has a sister Marcelle who is a journalist. In 1972, Sussman graduated from Pikesville Senior High School where in addition to his academic work, he was President of the Poetry Club. He then attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1975, after only three years in college, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.pbk.org/imis15 )〕 and graduated cum laude with a BA in Religious Studies. While attending Franklin and Marshall, he also studied Hebrew language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 1975 to 1987, Sussman attended Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in Cincinnati, Ohio. HUC-JIR is the rabbinical seminary for North American Reform Judaism. He received a Masters of Arts in Hebrew Letters in 1979 and was ordained as a Rabbi by HUC-JIR in June, 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://americanjewisharchives.org/catalog/Record/vtls000017997 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://americanjewisharchives.org/catalog/Record/vtls000030850 )〕 While studying for his rabbinical degree he was awarded the Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Prize in Homiletics for the Best Short Sermon. Before his ordination, Sussman was a student rabbi at Beth Boruk Temple,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bethboruktemple.com/ )〕 in Richmond, Indiana, where he wrote and published ''The Emergence of A Jewish Community in Richmond, Indiana'' (1981). This was Sussman's first published work in American Jewish History and the beginning of his scholarship on the history of Jewish communities in America. After ordination, Sussman remained at HUC-JIR where he earned a Ph.D. in American Jewish History in 1987, studying under Jacob Rader Marcus, the most senior scholar of American Jewish History, and Jonathan D. Sarna, who is currently at Brandeis University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/faculty/sarna.html )〕 Sussman's dissertation, "The Life and Career of Isaac Leeser (1806-1896): A Study of American Judaism in its Formative Period," was later published as ''Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism'' (1995).〔 Ironically, Leeser was a leader of the Jewish community in Philadelphia, where Sussman would ultimately spend the bulk of his rabbinical career. In 2005, HUC-JIR awarded Sussman an honorary Doctorate of Divinity. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lance J. Sussman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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