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Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Jonathan Judaken
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Judaken previously taught at the University of Memphis where he was the Dunavant Professor of History and Director of the Marcus Orr Center for the Humanities. Judaken was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 23, 1968. After immigrating to the United States as a teenager, Judaken received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego and an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in history from the University of California, Irvine.
After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judaken joined the history faculty at the University of Memphis in 1999.
He left the University of Memphis for Rhodes College in 2011, where he was appointed the first Spence L. Wilson Chair in Humanities. In his capacity as Spence L. Wilson Chair, Judaken directs the Communities in Conversation program, which facilitiates interdisciplinary lectures and events for Rhodes students, faculty and the general public in Memphis.
Judaken hosts the educational interview program "Counterpoint" on WKNO-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate station for the Mid-South.
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Judaken"s youthful experience as a Jew living under South African apartheid, as a member of both a religious minority and the dominant racial group, helped to drive his career interest in subjects such as existentialism, racism and the so-called Jewish Question.
