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Before his move to Jerusalem -where he did field research on newly religious youth, and studied Jewish mystical texts in Hebrew and Yiddishhe was William Scandling Professor of Sociology and Education at the University of Rochester.
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Philip Wexler
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Since retirement, he has been Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Bergische University of Wuppertal, Germany. He received a bachelor"s degree from New York University and master"s and doctoral degrees in sociology from Princeton University
While on leave from the Hebrew University, he served as Bronfman Professor at Brandeis University. Wexler is the author of a number of books in the fields of sociology of religion and sociology of education.
He was Editor of the American Sociological Association journal, Sociology of Education.
