Ernest Rubinstein

Professor Rubinstein works at the intersection of religion, philosophy, and literature. He has written four books: An Episode of Jewish Romanticism (1999), on the philosopher Franz Rosenzweig; Religion and the Muse (2008), on the relation between religion and literature; From Ecclesiastes to Simone Weil: Varieties of Philosophical Spirituality, (2014); and, A Liminal Space: Between Judaism and Christianity (2021). His current book project is on Jewish philosophy as a resource for secular Jews. He has taught at Drew University, Rutgers University, and the New School. Professor Rubinstein teaches philosophy and religion courses at the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts.