Dr. Henry Abramson

Dr. Henry Abramson serves as Dean of the mighty Avenue J campus of Touro College. A native of northern Ontario, Canada, he earned his PhD in from the University of Toronto for a dissertation on the Jews of Ukraine, and has held post-doctoral and visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, Cornell, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His Torah education at the tertiary level was conducted at Yeshivat Ohr Somayach in Toronto, Monsey and Jerusalem, where he studied under Rabbi Uziel Milevsky z"l, Rabbi Mendel Weinbach z"l, and Rabbi Nachman Bulman z"l. He is the author of seven books on Jewish history and thought, most recently Torah from the Years of Wrath: The Historical Context of the Aish Kodesh, and is the only person ever to have been published by both Harvard University and Feldheim publishers. His research has been recognized with research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and he is a recipient of the Excellence in the Academy Award from the National Education Association. His personal website is www.henryabramson.com.