Jon Levisohn

Jon A. Levisohn is an American academic who is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University. Levisohn is also the director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis and the chair of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. At Brandeis, he also chairs the Seminar on Contemporary Jewish Life. He is a co-editor of the Mandel-Brandeis Series in Jewish Education.

He is a philosopher of general and religious education. Recent work has focused on how Jews think about the desired outcomes of Jewish education and how they might. He serves as the host of the Learning About Learning podcast.

Education

 * Maimonides School
 * Harvard University, BA
 * Stanford University, MA
 * Stanford University, PhD

Books

 * Jon A. Levisohn and Susan P. Fendrick, eds. Turn it and Turn it Again: Studies in the Teaching and Learning of Classical Jewish Texts. Academic Studies Press, 2013. ISBN 9781936235636.
 * Jon A. Levisohn and Jeffrey S. Kress, eds., Advancing the Learning Agenda in Jewish Education. Academic Studies Press, 2018.
 * Jon A. Levisohn and Ari Y. Kelman, eds., Beyond Jewish Identity. Academic Studies Press, 2019.