Henry Abramson earned his PhD in History from the University of Toronto in 1995. A native of northern Ontario, he held visiting and post-doctoral positions at Cornell, Harvard, Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before joining Touro in 2006, where he served as Dean of campuses in Florida and Brooklyn. He is the author of several books on Jewish history and thought, including A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (Harvard, 1999), Reading the Talmud: Developing Independence in Gemara Learning (Feldheim, 2006), and Torah from the Years of Wrath: The Historical Context of the Aish Kodesh, 1939-1943 (Sam Sapozhnik, 2017). His research has been recognized with awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and he is a recipient of the Excellence in the Academy Award from the National Education Association. He is passionate about expanding knowledge of Jewish history and thought, and he was recently named as a YouTube Silver Creator Award for his online lectures, which have been viewed over twelve million times. His current projects include the Jewish History in Daf Yomi podcast for the AllDaf App of the Orthodox Union, and a three-volume Maggid History of the Jewish People for Koren Publishers in Jerusalem.

Education

• PhD (History), University of Toronto

Publications

• H Abramson. "A prayer for the government: Ukrainians and Jews in revolutionary times, 1917-1920." (No Title), 1999
• H Abramson. "Jewish representation in the independent Ukrainian governments of 1917-1920." Slavic Review 50 (3), 542-550, 1991
• H Abramson. "The esh kodesh of rabbi Kalonimus Kalmish Shapiro: A hasidic treatise on communal trauma from the Holocaust." Transcultural psychiatry 37 (3), 321-335, 2000
• H Abramson. "A ready hatred: Depictions of the Jewish woman in medieval antisemitic art and caricature." Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 62, 1-18, 1996
• H Abramson. "The scattering of Amalek: A model for understanding the Ukrainian‐Jewish conflict." East European Jewish Affairs 24 (1), 39-47, 1994
• H Abramson. "A Double Occlusion Sephardim and the Holocaust." Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry, 285-299, 2005
• H Abramson, C Hannon. "Depicting the Ambiguous Wound: Circumcision in Medieval Art." The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite, 98-113, 2003

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