Rab­bi Dr. Michael A. Shmid­man is Dean and Vic­tor J. Sel­manowitz Pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish His­to­ry at Touro Grad­u­ate School of Jew­ish Stud­ies and Edi­tor of Touro Uni­ver­si­ty Press. He received his PhD from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and his MA from Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty, and has pub­lished and lec­tured exten­sive­ly in the areas of medieval Jew­ish his­to­ry and Mai­monidean stud­ies. Dr. Shmid­man also served as Rab­bi of Con­gre­ga­tion Keter Torah in Tea­neck, New Jer­sey and as Edi­tor of Tra­di­tion: A Jour­nal of Ortho­dox Jew­ish Thought.