Dov Yehuda Weiss

Department of Religion
3092D Foreign Language Building
707 South Mathews
Urbana, Illinois 61801

Dov Weiss is an Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and a Conrad Humanities Scholar (21-26) in the Departments of Religion, Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He completed his PhD at the University of Chicago Divinity School as a Martin Meyer Fellow in 2011 and was the Alan M. Stock Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies in 2012. Specializing in the history of Jewish biblical interpretation and rabbinic theology, Dov’s first book, Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism (University of Pennsylvania Press), won the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship. 

Ancient Judaism, Rabbinic Thought and Literature, Medieval Judaism, History of Jewish Theology, Jewish Biblical Interpretation, Modern Jewish Thought

Ph.D. (with distinction) in History of Judaism, University of Chicago Divinity School, 2011
M.A. (Modern Jewish History) Yeshiva University, 1999
B.A. (Political Science) Yeshiva University, 1995

RLST 110: World Religions

RLST 120: History of Judaism

RLST 283 Jewish Sacred Literature

RLST 344: Medieval Jewish Thought

RLST 415: Intro Readings of Talmud

RLST 416: Readings in Rabbinic Midrash

RLST 418 Afterlife in Ancient Judaism

RLST 442: History of Early Judaism

RLST 515: History of Jewish Theology

Conrad Humanities Scholar, University of Illinois (2021-2026)

Associate, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois (2020-2021)

NEH Summer Stipend for Rabbinic Inferno: Hell in Classical Judaism (2020)

National Jewish Book Council's “Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award” in Scholarship (2017)  

Harry Starr Fellow, Harvard University (2012)  

Martin Marty Fellow, University of Chicago Divinity School (2010-2011)