Two Jewish Approaches to Evil in History

Warren Zev Harvey was born in New York in 1943. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1965 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from the same institution in 1973. After finishing his graduate studies, he began his teaching career at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he taught between 1971 and 1977. In the late 1970s, he accepted an offer from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has taught there ever since, working his way up the ladder from lecturer to full professor. A specialist in medieval Jewish philosophy, he is the author of Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998) and of numerous articles on Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Spinoza, and other medieval and modern Jewish philosophers. In addition, he has served as coeditor of Tarbiz, the Hebrew quarterly for Jewish studies (1992-1996), and as director of Misgav Yerushalayim, the Center for the Study of the Sephardi and Oriental Jewish Heritage (1996-2000). He has also been a visiting professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris; the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; the University of Pennsylvania; Queens College, New York; Yeshiva University; and Yale University.