Adam Ferziger

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Adam S. Ferziger is a Jewish historian and author. He is known for his study of Jewish assimilation in the Diaspora, and for documenting the evolving relationship between Orthodox and non-observant Jews.

Ferziger is the author of Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity[1], and co-editor of New Perspectives on the Study of Orthodoxy [2], with Aviezer Ravitzky and Yosef Salmon.

He earned his doctorate from Israel's Bar-Ilan University, where he is a lecturer and associate director of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry. He serves as the Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Fellow in Jewish Studies and is a senior research fellow at Bar Ilan's Rappaport Center for Assimilation Research[3]. Previously, he was the founding director of the university's preparatory program for new immigrants to Israel and served as a community rabbi for 10 years at the Beit Binyamin Synagogue in Kfar Sava, Israel.

Ferziger was born Nov. 10, 1964, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He received his early education at the SAR Academy in Riverdale, and the Ramaz School in Manhattan before earning his BA and MA at Yeshiva University. He studied at the Beit Midrash L'Torah, popularly known as BMT, in Jerusalem and Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut.

A frequent lecturer in the U.S. and Europe, Ferziger was a visiting professor at Shandong University in Jinan, China in 2005. He and his wife Naomi live with their six children in Kfar Sava.