Steven M. Cohen
HUC-JIR
Steven M. Cohen, a sociologist of American Jewry, is Research Professor of Jewish Social Policy at HUC-JIR, and Director of the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner. In 1992 he made aliyah, and taught for 14 years at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously, he taught at Queens College, with visiting appointments at Yale, Brandeis, and JTS. With Arnold Eisen, he wrote,
The Jew Within, and with Charles Liebman he wrote,
Two Worlds of Judaism: The Israeli and American Experiences. His earlier books include
American Modernity & Jewish Identity, and
American Assimilation or Jewish Revival?
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His current research interests focus on the emerging patterns of Jewish identity and community among Jews in their 20s and 30s. He serves as Research Director of Synagogue 3000, Senior Counselor to the Chancellor at JTS, and Director of the Florence G. Heller / JCCA Research Center. In 2011, he received an honorary doctorate from the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. In 2010, he received the Marshall Sklare Award of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and was cited as one of the Forward Fifty (for the second time). The book,
Sacred Strategies, of which he is a co-author, just won a National Jewish Book Award.
He is married to Rabbi Marion Lev-Cohen, and they live in Jerusalem and New York. His daughter, Edeet, attends The Hebrew University School of Law, and his son Adam lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.
