Ismar Schorsch is the Chancellor Emeritus of the Jewish Theological Seminary and Herman Abramovitz Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish History. He is the author of, among other works, Jewish Reactions to German Anti-Semitism, 1870-1914, From Text to Context: The Turn to History in Modern Judaism, Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries, and the editor and translator of Heinrich Graetz: The Structure of Jewish History and Other Essays.