Dr. Norman Solomon is a British Orthodox

Orthodox Judaism

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 rabbi

Rabbi

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, professor, and scholar in the field of Jewish studies

Jewish studies

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 and Jewish-Christian relations.

Biography

Norman Solomon was born in Cardiff

Cardiff

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, South Wales

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 and attended Cardiff High School

Cardiff High School

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 and St. John’s College, Cambridge. He attained rabbinic ordination at Jews' College (London School of Jewish Studies) in London, England and a Ph.D. at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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. He served Orthodox congregations in Manchester

Manchester

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, Liverpool

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, London and Birmingham, England. He was later director of the Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations at the Selly Oak Colleges

Selly Oak Colleges

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, Birmingham and a Fellow in Modern Jewish Thought at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

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. He was also lecturer in Theology

Theology

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 at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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. A former Vice President of the World Congress of Faiths, a Patron of the International Interfaith Centre and an Adviser to the International Council of Christians and Jews

International Council of Christians and Jews

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, he has been actively involved in interfaith dialogue with Christians and Muslims. He has written five books and over seventy articles on a wide range of issues in the fields of Jewish studies and Jewish-Christian relations. He has also edited a number of volumes in these fields. His major works include his books Judaism and World Religion and The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and His School.

Publications

• Judaism and World Religion (1991)
• (1991), ‘The Soloveitchik Line (On Interfaith Dialogue),’ Dan Cohn-Sherbok (ed.), Problems in Contemporary Jewish Theology, pp. 225–240
• The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and His School (1993)
• A Very Short Introduction to Judaism (1996)
• Judaism: A Brief Insight (1996)
• Historical Dictionary of Judaism (1998)

Sources

• His CV at the centre for Jewish Studies