RELIGION

Dov Schwartz

Professor

Prof. Dov Schwartz was born in Israel in 1961 to Holocaust survivors. He studied in the Hesder Yeshiva Kerem B'Yavne and later at the Advanced Judaic Studies Program at Bet Ariel in Jerusalem. For 10 years he taught Jewish thought at the Horev Religious Girls' High School, while beginning studies towards a BA and then a PhD at the Philosophy Department of Bar Ilan University. While still a BA student, he was asked to teach three courses in place of a lecturer who had fallen ill, and thus the student became a teacher. He completed his PhD just three and a half years after first entering through the university gates, receiving distinction for his work on the religious philosophy of R. Samuel Ibn Zarza. He subsequently became full professor at Bar Ilan University. (Photo: YouTube screenshot)