Barry Wimpfheimer
Assistant Professor of Religion, (Ph.D. Columbia University)
Office: Crowe Hall 5-174
Phone: 847-491-2618
E-mail: barry@northwestern.edu
Professor Wimpfheimer joined the Northwestern faculty in 2006, following a year as Mal and Lea Bank Early Career Professor of Jewish Studies at Penn State University and a semester as Harry Starr Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Judaic Studies. Prior to completing his doctorate with a dissertation entitled “Legal Narratives in the Babylonian Talmud,” he received his rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in 2000.
Jewish Studies Courses
Religion 101-6 Introduction to Kabbalah
Religion 230 Introduction to Judaism
Religion 339 Topics in Judaism: The Sabbath in Rabbinic Literature
